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βλάξ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: βλάξ βλακός

Structure: βλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: malako/s

Sense

  1. slack, stupid, a dolt

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀπειλεῖ γὰρ ὁ θεὸσ καὶ κολάζει τοὺσ βλᾶκασ. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 17:2)
  • ὡσ δὲ καταπλεύσασ εἰσ τὴν Μακεδονίαν συνέμιξε τοῖσ περὶ τὴν αὐλὴν νεανίσκοισ, ὑπολαβὼν εἶναι τὴν Μακεδόνων ἀνδρείαν ἐν τῇ τῆσ ὑποδέσεωσ καὶ τῇ τῆσ ἐσθῆτοσ διαφορᾷ, παρῆν ταῦτα πάντ’ ἐζηλωκὼσ καὶ πεπεισμένοσ αὑτὸν μὲν ἄνδρα γεγονέναι διὰ τὴν ἐκδημίαν καὶ διὰ τὸ Μακεδόσιν ὡμιληκέναι, τοὺσ δὲ κατὰ τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν ἀνδράποδα καὶ βλᾶκασ διαμένειν. (Polybius, Histories, book 16, chapter 22 5:1)

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

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