Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

βαναυσικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βαναυσικός

Structure: βαναυσικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ba/nausos

Sense

  1. of or for mechanics, a mere mechanical

Examples

  • πότερον τέχνην τινὰ βαναυσικὴν ἢ καλοκἀγαθίαν διδάσκων; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 3 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. of or for mechanics

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

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