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Βάττος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Βάττος Βάττη Βάττον

Structure: Βαττ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Formed from the sound.

Sense

  1. stammerer

Examples

  • ι καὶ μάλιστα δῆλόν ἐστιν ὅτι τῶν ὀνομάτων ἴδιον ἦν ὁ Γάιοσ, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον οἰκίασ ἢ γένουσ κοινὸν ὁ Μάρκιοσ, τῷ δὲ τρίτῳ ὕστερον ἐχρήσαντο πράξεώσ τινοσ ἢ τύχησ ἢ ἰδέασ ἢ ἀρετῆσ ἐπιθέτῳ, καθάπερ Ἕλληνεσ ἐτίθεντο πράξεώσ μὲν ἐπώνυμον τὸν Σωτῆρα καὶ τὸν Καλλίνικον, ἰδέασ δὲ τὸν Φύσκωνα καὶ τὸν Γρυπόν, ἀρετῆσ δὲ τὸν Εὐεργέτην καὶ τὸν Φιλάδελφον, εὐτυχίασ δὲ τὸν Εὐδαίμονα τῷ δευτέρῳ τῶν Βάττων. (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 11 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. stammerer

Related

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

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