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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

  • "βλὰξ ἄνθρωποσ ἐπὶ παντὶ λόγῳ ἐπτοῆσθαι φιλεῖ. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 7 3:1)
  • οἱο͂ν Ἱπποκράτησ γεωμετρικὸσ ὤν, ἀλλὰ περὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἐδόκει βλὰξ καὶ ἄφρων εἶναι, καὶ πολὺ χρυσίον πλέων ἀπώλεσεν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν Βυζαντίῳ πεντηκοστολόγων δι’ εὐήθειαν, ὡσ λέγουσιν ἀλλ’ ὅτι καὶ ἐν οἷσ εὐτυχοῦσιν ἄφρονεσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 8 20:2)
  • ἢν δὲ τοσοῦτον ἐπιδιδῶ, δέδοικα, ἔφη, μὴ παντάπασι βλάξ τισ καὶ ἠλίθιοσ γένωμαι· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 16:6)
  • ἦ γὰρ ἂν παντάπασι βλὰξ εἰήν τισ· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:11)

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

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