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εὔγλωσσος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: euglōssos

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 εὔγλωσσος εὔγλώσση εὔγλωσσον
Genitive εὐγλώσσου εὔγλώσσης εὐγλώσσου
Dative εὐγλώσσῳ εὔγλώσσῃ εὐγλώσσῳ
Accusative εὔγλωσσον εὔγλώσσην εὔγλωσσον
Vocative εὔγλωσσε εὔγλώσση εὔγλωσσον
DualN/A/V εὐγλώσσω εὔγλώσσα εὐγλώσσω
G/D εὐγλώσσοιν εὔγλώσσαιν εὐγλώσσοιν
PluralNominative εὔγλωσσοι εὔγλωσσαι εὔγλωσσα
Genitive εὐγλώσσων εὔγλωσσῶν εὐγλώσσων
Dative εὐγλώσσοις εὔγλώσσαις εὐγλώσσοις
Accusative εὐγλώσσους εὔγλώσσας εὔγλωσσα
Vocative εὔγλωσσοι εὔγλωσσαι εὔγλωσσα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective εὔγλωσσος 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)
  • Ἀτθίδος εὐγλώσσου στόμα φέρτατον, οὐ σέο μεῖζον φθέγμα Πανελλήνων πᾶσα κέκευθε σελίς: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1881)

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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