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ἀλαζόνευμα?

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: alazoneuma

Principal Part: ἀλαζόνευμα

Structure: ἀλαζονευματ (Stem)

Etym.: from ἀλαζονεύομαι

Sense

  1. an imposture, piece of quackery

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀλαζόνευμα ἀλαζονεύματε ἀλαζονεύματα
Genitive ἀλαζονεύματος ἀλαζονευμάτοιν ἀλαζονευμάτων
Dative ἀλαζονεύματι ἀλαζονευμάτοιν ἀλαζονεύμασι(ν)
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

  • τῶν ἀλαζονευμάτων. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 3:17)
  • τῶν ἀλαζονευμάτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 6 3:2)
  • ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις καὶ τοῖς δικαστηρίοις πολλάκις ἀφέμενοι τῶν εἰς αὐτὸ τὸ πρᾶγμα λόγων, ὑπὸ τῆς ἀπάτης καὶ τῶν ἀλαζονευμάτων ὑπάγεσθε, καὶ πάντων ἀδικώτατον ἔθος εἰς τοὺς ἀγῶνας παραδέχεσθε: (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1784)
  • 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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