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ἀδολέσχης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀδολέσχης

Structure: ἀδολεσχ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from a)/dhn le/sxh, talking to satiety.

Sense

  1. a garrulous fellow, idle talker

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἄλλοι δὲ φύσει ἀδολέσχαι οἱο͂ν ἀκροατῶν τινων λαβόμενοι τῶν συμποτῶν ἀναισθήτουσ καὶ μακροὺσ διατίθενται λόγουσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 5:1)
  • κινδυνεύουσι γοῦν, ὠγαθὲ Ἑρμόγενεσ, οἱ πρῶτοι τὰ ὀνόματα τιθέμενοι οὐ φαῦλοι εἶναι ἀλλὰ μετεωρολόγοι καὶ ἀδολέσχαι τινέσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 108:5)

Synonyms

  1. a garrulous fellow

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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