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βραχυλόγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βραχυλόγος βραχυλόγη βραχυλόγον

Structure: βραχυλογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw

Sense

  1. short in speech, of few words

Examples

  • τὴν πόλιν ἅπαντεσ ἡμῶν Ἕλληνεσ ὑπολαμβάνουσιν ὡσ φιλόλογόσ τέ ἐστι καὶ πολύλογοσ, Λακεδαίμονα δὲ καὶ Κρήτην, τὴν μὲν βραχύλογον, τὴν δὲ πολύνοιαν μᾶλλον ἢ πολυλογίαν ἀσκοῦσαν· (Plato, Laws, book 1 105:2)

Synonyms

  1. short in speech

Related

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

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