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βλάσφημος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βλάσφημος

Structure: βλασφημ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: The origin of blas is uncertain: bla/c and bla/ptw have both been suggested.

Sense

  1. evil-speaking, slanderous
  2. speaking blasphemy, blasphemous, a blasphemer

Examples

  • πολλὰ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα τούτοισ ὅμοια προσθεὶσ καὶ οὐδενὸσ οὔτε πικροῦ πράγματοσ οὔτε βλασφήμου ὀνόματοσ φεισάμενοσ, τελευτῶν ἐκεῖνον ἔτι προσέθηκεν τὸν λόγον, ἐφ’ ᾧ μάλιστα ἡ πληθὺσ ἠγανάκτησεν, ὅτι χρόνον οὐδένα παύσεται στασιάζουσα περὶ παντὸσ χρήματοσ ἡ πόλισ, ἀλλ’ αἰεί τινα καινὴν ἐπὶ παλαιᾷ νοσήσει νόσον, ἑώσ ἂν ἡ τῶν δημάρχων ἐξουσία διαμένῃ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 44 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. evil-speaking

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

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