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δυσγενής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσγενής δυσγενές

Structure: δυσγενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ge/nos

Sense

  1. low-born
  2. lowminded, low, mean

Examples

  • οὐδὲ θάτερον νοσῶν δυοῖν κεκλήσῃ δυσγενὴσ πένησ θ’ ἅμα, ἀλλ’ εὐγενήσ τε καὶ πολυκτήμων βίου. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic7)
  • πέφυκα δυσγενήσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 1:10)
  • ἢ γὰρ πεφυκὼσ ἐσθλὸσ οὐκ ἔχει βίον, ἢ δυσγενὴσ ὤν ‐ ληκύθιον ἀπώλεσεν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 2:10)
  • οὐ πάνυ γὰρ εὐδαιμονικὸσ ὁ τὴν ἰδέαν παναίσχησ ἢ δυσγενὴσ ἢ μονώτησ καὶ ἄτεκνοσ, ἔτι δ’ ἴσωσ ἧττον, εἴ τῳ πάγκακοι παῖδεσ εἰε͂ν ἢ φίλοι, ἢ ἀγαθοὶ ὄντεσ τεθνᾶσιν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 1 90:2)
  • "ὅταν εἰσ πενίαν λέγῃ πένησ ἢ δυσγενὴσ εἰσ δυσγένειαν ἢ ἐρῶν εἰσ ἔρωτα· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 17:2)

Synonyms

  1. low-born

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

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