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δοξόσοφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: δοξόσοφος δοξόσοφον

Structure: δοξοσοφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. wise in one's own conceit

Examples

  • καὶ οἱ δοξόσοφοι· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 10 3:3)
  • πολυήκοοι γάρ σοι γενόμενοι ἄνευ διδαχῆσ πολυγνώμονεσ εἶναι δόξουσιν, ἀγνώμονεσ ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ ὄντεσ, καὶ χαλεποὶ συνεῖναι, δοξόσοφοι γεγονότεσ ἀντὶ σοφῶν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 314:4)

Synonyms

  1. wise in one's own conceit

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

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