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ἀλαζόνευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλαζόνευμα

Structure: ἀλαζονευματ (Stem)

Etym.: from a)lazoneu/omai

Sense

  1. an imposture, piece of quackery

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀλαζόνευμα ἀλαζονεύματε ἀλαζονεύματα
Genitive ἀλαζονεύματος ἀλαζονευμάτοιν ἀλαζονευμάτων
Dative ἀλαζονεύματι ἀλαζονευμάτοιν ἀλαζονεύμασιν*
Accusative ἀλαζόνευμα ἀλαζονεύματε ἀλαζονεύματα
Vocative ἀλαζόνευμα ἀλαζονεύματε ἀλαζονεύματα

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

  • ἡλίκον δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ ἀλαζόνευμα τοῦτο, ἐγὼ πειράσομαι μεγάλῳ σημείῳ διδάξαι. (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 238 1:1)
  • καὶ τοῦτο ἴσωσ μὲν ἦν τινα καὶ χρείαν παρέχον, τὸ δὲ πλεῖστον ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν ἀλαζόνευμα, ἵνα δὴ διπλᾶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων ὁρᾶν καὶ ἀκούειν δοκοίη. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 8:4)

Synonyms

  1. an imposture

Similar forms

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

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