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αὐτοκάβδαλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: αὐτοκάβδαλος αὐτοκάβδαλη αὐτοκάβδαλον

Structure: αὐτοκαβδαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. wrought or done carelessly, slovenly, random

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

  • "ἐν τοῖσ σκιραφείοισ ἐγκαψικήδαλοσ ^ ἄνθρωποσ τῶν αὐτοληκύθων καὶ τῶν αὐτοκαβδάλων, ἀεὶ κουριῶν, ἐνδρομίδασ ὑποδούμενοσ ἢ βαυκίδασ, ἀμφιμάσχαλον ἔχων. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 10:2)
  • Σικυώνιοι μὲν γὰρ φαλλοφόρουσ αὐτοὺσ καλοῦσιν, ἄλλοι δ’ αὐτοκαβδάλουσ, οἱ δὲ φλύακασ, ὡσ Ἰταλοί, σοφιστὰσ δὲ οἱ πολλοί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 15 2:1)
  • "οἱ αὐτοκάβδαλοι, φησί, καλούμενοι ἐστεφανωμένοι κιττῷ στάδην ἐπέραινον ῥήσεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 161)
  • τὸ δ’ ἀνάλογόν ἐστιν ἐὰν μήτε περὶ εὐόγκων αὐτοκαβδάλωσ λέγηται μήτε περὶ εὐτελῶν σεμνῶσ, μηδ’ ἐπὶ τῷ εὐτελεῖ ὀνόματι ἐπῇ κόσμοσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 7 2:1)
  • τούτων δὲ ἕνεκα προοιμίου δεῖται, ἢ κόσμου χάριν, ὡσ αὐτοκάβδαλα φαίνεται ἐὰν μὴ ἔχῃ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 14 12:3)

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

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