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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

  • δικαιότερον ἄν τισ εἴποι πρὸσ τὸν ἀδόλεσχον, μᾶλλον δὲ περὶ τοῦ ἀδολέσχου, οὐκ ἂν δυναίμην μὴ δεχόμενον πιμπλάναι, σοφοὺσ ἐπαντλῶν ἀνδρὶ μὴ σοφῷ λόγουσ, μᾶλλον δὲ περιαντλῶν λόγουσ ἀνθρώπῳ λαλοῦντι μὲν πρὸσ τοὺσ οὐκ ἀκούοντασ, μὴ ἀκούοντι δὲ τῶν λαλούντων. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 1 1:5)
  • ἀδολέσχου δὲ κουρέωσ ἐρωτήσαντοσ αὐτὸν "πῶσ σε κείρω; (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 21)
  • ταῦτα μὲν ἀκηκόατε ἄλλωσ παρὰ ἀνθρώπου πλάνητοσ καὶ ἀδολέσχου. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 13:1)
  • τούτῳ μήποτε ὀκνήσῃσ εἰπεῖν τόνδε τὸν μῦθον, εἰ καί σου καταφρονεῖν τινεσ μέλλοιεν ὡσ ἀδολέσχου καὶ πλάνητοσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 67:2)
  • χρὴ δὲ ἐᾶν ὑμᾶσ ἔμβραχυ, ὅ,τι ἂν ἐπίῃ μοι, τούτῳ ἕπεσθαι, καὶ μὴ ἀγανακτεῖν, ἐὰν φαίνωμαι πλανώμενοσ ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ, ὥσπερ ἀμέλει καὶ τὸν ἄλλον χρόνον ἔζηκα ἀλώμενοσ, ἀλλὰ συγγνώμην ἔχειν, ἅτε ἀκούοντασ ἀνδρὸσ ἰδιώτου καὶ ἀδολέσχου. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 20:1)

Synonyms

  1. a garrulous fellow

Related

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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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