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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

  • χρήσομαι δὲ τῶν μὲν ὑπ’ ἐμοῦ λεγομένων μάρτυσι τοῖσ ἀξιοπιστοτάτοισ εἶναι περὶ πάσησ ἀρχαιολογίασ ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων κεκριμένοισ, τοὺσ δὲ βλασφήμωσ περὶ ἡμῶν καὶ ψευδῶσ γεγραφότασ αὐτοὺσ δι’ ἑαυτῶν ἐλεγχομένουσ παρέξω. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 5:1)
  • οὐ προσέχοντοσ δ’ αὐτοῦ τοῖσ λόγοισ, ἀλλὰ καὶ πολλὰ λοιδοροῦντοσ ἀπὸ τοῦ τείχουσ βλασφήμωσ προσαγαγὼν μηχανὰσ ὁ βασιλεὺσ καὶ καταβαλὼν τὰ τείχη κατὰ κράτοσ εἷλε τὴν πόλιν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 103 5:2)
  • θεασάμενοι δ’ αὐτόν τινεσ τῶν ἀδεκάστων καὶ τῶν ἐστρατευμένων τῷ Καίσαρι, δι’ ὀργῆσ ἔχοντεσ ὅτι πρῶτοσ ἐπὶ τῷ Καίσαρι, καίπερ οἰκεῖοσ ὢν αὐτοῦ, βλασφήμωσ ἐδημηγόρησε, λίθοισ ἔβαλλον καὶ ἐδίωκον· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 18 1:5)

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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