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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀδολέσχης ἀδολέσχᾱ ἀδολέσχαι
Genitive ἀδολέσχου ἀδολέσχαιν ἀδολεσχῶν
Dative ἀδολέσχῃ ἀδολέσχαιν ἀδολέσχαις
Accusative ἀδολέσχην ἀδολέσχᾱ ἀδολέσχᾱς
Vocative ἀδολέσχα ἀδολέσχᾱ ἀδολέσχαι

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

  • ἐγὼ τοὺσ λόγουσ τὸν μὲν ἰδιώτην ἐπιστάμενοσ ὄντα, τὸν ἀδολέσχην τοῦτον λέγω καὶ φλύαρον, τὸν δὲ πολιτικόν, ἐν ᾧ τὸ πολὺ κατεσκευασμένον ἐστὶ καὶ ἔντεχνον, ὅ τι μὲν ἂν τῶν ποιημάτων ὅμοιον εὑρίσκω τῷ φλυάρῳ καὶ ἀδολέσχῃ, γέλωτοσ ἄξιον τίθεμαι, ὅ τι δ’ ἂν τῷ κατεσκευασμένῳ καὶ ἐντέχνῳ, ζήλου καὶ σπουδῆσ ἐπιτήδειον τυγχάνειν οἰόμαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2610)
  • καὶ γάρ τοι καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν τοῦ μύθου ταύτῃ τρέπειν οὐ χαλεπὸν ἀνδρὶ ἀδολέσχῃ καὶ πλείω σχεδὸν ἢ ἔδει σχολὴν ἄγοντι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 21:1)
  • ἄν τε γὰρ ἀδολεσχῇ, οὐ σαφήσ, οὐδὲ ἂν σύντομοσ, ἀλλὰ δῆλον ὅτι τὸ μέσον ἁρμόττει. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 12 6:6)

Synonyms

  1. a garrulous fellow

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

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