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ἀπειρόκαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπειρόκαλος ἀπειρόκαλη ἀπειρόκαλον

Structure: ἀπειροκαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kalo/n

Sense

  1. ignorant of the beautiful, without taste, tasteless, vulgar

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • μελαίνει τε τὸ σαφὲσ καὶ ζόφῳ ποιεῖ παραπλήσιον, ἕλκει τε μακρὸν ἀποτείνουσα τὸν νοῦν, συστρέψαι δὲ δέον ἐν ὀλίγοισ ὀνόμασιν ἐκχεῖται εἰσ ἀπειροκάλουσ περιφράσεισ, πλοῦτον ὀνομάτων ἐπιδεικνυμένη, ὑπεριδοῦσα δὲ τῶν κυρίων ὀνομάτων κἀν τῇ κοινῇ χρήσει κειμένων τὰ πεποιημένα ζητεῖ καὶ ξένα καὶ ἀρχαιοπρεπῆ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 5:3)
  • ἐκχεῖται δ’ εἰσ ἀπειροκάλουσ περιφράσεισ πλοῦτον ὀνομάτων ἐπιδεικνυμένη κενόν, ὑπεριδοῦσά τε τῶν κυρίων καὶ ἐν τῇ κοινῇ χρήσει κειμένων τὰ πεποιημένα ζητεῖ καὶ ξένα καὶ ἀρχαιοπρεπῆ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 5 2:2)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ἔχει τινὰ γειτνίασιν, οὓσ καλοῦσί τινεσ ἀπειροκάλουσ καὶ σαλάκωνασ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 118:1)

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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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