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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

  • οὐδ’ ὀψοφάγοσ οὐδ’ ἀδολέσχησ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 365)
  • ὁ δ’ ἀδολέσχησ τοὐναντίον, ἂν μέν τισ ἐμπέσῃ λόγοσ, ἐξ οὗ μαθεῖν τι δύναται καὶ πυθέσθαι τῶν ἀγνοουμένων, τοῦτον ἐξωθεῖ καὶ ἐκκρούει, μισθὸν οὕτω βραχὺν δοῦναι τὸ σιωπῆσαι μὴ δυνάμενοσ· (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 22 5:4)
  • ὁ δὲ ἀδολέσχησ τοιοῦτόσ τισ, οἱο͂σ, ὃν μὴ γιγνώσκει, τούτῳ παρακαθεζόμενοσ πλησίον πρῶτον μὲν τῆσ αὑτοῦ γυναικὸσ εἰπεῖν ἐγκώμιον· (Theophrastus, Characters, 2:1)
  • ὁ δὲ περισσὸσ καὶ ἀδολέσχησ, ἄν γε δὴ τύχῃ καὶ τὸν Κολοφώνιον ἀνεγνωκὼσ Ἀντίμαχον, κτλ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , ovid trist. i. 6. 110)
  • δεινόν τε, ὦ Θεαίτητε, ὡσ ἀληθῶσ κινδυνεύει καὶ ἀηδὲσ εἶναι ἀνὴρ ἀδολέσχησ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 322:8)

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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