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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

  • ὀρθῶσ παραινεῖσ οὐκ ἐῶν δικορραφεῖν, ἀλλ’ ὡσ τάχιστ’ ἐμπιμπράναι τὴν οἰκίαν τῶν ἀδολεσχῶν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Episode 1:5)
  • δ’ ἀδολέσχων ὁ λόγοσ ἀτελὴσ καὶ ἄκαρπόσ ἐστι. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 2 4:1)
  • οὗτοσ μὲν οὖν ἁμωσγέπωσ ἔσχε πρόφασιν τῆσ ἀκρασίασ τὴν ἐλπίδα καὶ τὴν φιλοφροσύνην, οἱ δὲ πλεῖστοι τῶν ἀδολέσχων οὐδ’ αἰτίαν ἔχοντεσ ἀπολλύουσιν αὑτούσ. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 12 3:1)
  • ὡσ γὰρ ἐν τῷ σώματι πρὸσ τὰ πεπονθότα μέρη καὶ ἀλγοῦντα γίνεται φορὰ καὶ ὁλκὴ τῶν πλησίον, οὕτωσ ἡ γλῶττα τῶν ἀδολέσχων ἀεὶ φλεγμονὴν ἔχουσα καὶ σφυγμὸν ἕλκει τι καὶ συνάγει τῶν ἀπορρήτων καὶ κεκρυμμένων ἐφ’ ἑαυτήν. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 14 4:1)
  • ὥσπερ νῦν κατανοοῦμεν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀδολέσχων, ὅτι φιλεῖσθαι βουλόμενοι μισοῦνται, χαρίζεσθαι θέλοντεσ ἐνοχλοῦσι, θαυμάζεσθαι δοκοῦντεσ καταγελῶνται, κερδαίνοντεσ οὐδὲν ἀναλίσκουσιν, ἀδικοῦσι τοὺσ φίλουσ, ὠφελοῦσι τοὺσ ἐχθρούσ, ἑαυτοὺσ ἀπολλύουσιν. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 16 1:1)

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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