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εὔγλωσσος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔγλωσσος εὔγλωσση εὔγλωσσον

Structure: εὐγλωσς (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. good of tongue, eloquent, glib of tongue, voluble
  2. sweet sounding
  3. loosing the tongue, making eloquent

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative εύ̓γλωσσος εὔγλώσση εύ̓γλωσσον
Genitive εὐγλώσσου εὔγλώσσης εὐγλώσσου
Dative εὐγλώσσῳ εὔγλώσσῃ εὐγλώσσῳ
Accusative εύ̓γλωσσον εὔγλώσσην εύ̓γλωσσον
Vocative εύ̓γλωσσε εὔγλώσση εύ̓γλωσσον
DualN/A/V εὐγλώσσω εὔγλώσσᾱ εὐγλώσσω
G/D εὐγλώσσοιν εὔγλώσσαιν εὐγλώσσοιν
PluralNominative εύ̓γλωσσοι εύ̓́γλωσσαι εύ̓γλωσσα
Genitive εὐγλώσσων εὔγλωσσῶν εὐγλώσσων
Dative εὐγλώσσοις εὔγλώσσαις εὐγλώσσοις
Accusative εὐγλώσσους εὔγλώσσᾱς εύ̓γλωσσα
Vocative εύ̓γλωσσοι εύ̓́γλωσσαι εύ̓γλωσσα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective εύ̓γλωσσος εὐγλώσσου εὐγλωσσότερος εὐγλωσσοτέρου εὐγλωσσότατος εὐγλωσσοτάτου
Adverb εὐγλώσσως εὐγλωσσότερον εὐγλωσσότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἄγγελον δ’ οὐ μέμψεται πόλισ γέρονθ’, ἡβῶντα δ’ εὐγλώσσῳ φρενί. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode9)

Synonyms

  1. good of tongue

  2. sweet sounding

  3. loosing the tongue

Similar forms

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

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