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φαῦλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φαῦλος φαύλη φαῦλον

Structure: φαυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: like flau=ros

Sense

  1. (of things) easy, slight
  2. trivial, paltry, sorry, indifferent, miserable, poor
  3. sorry, paltry, mean, bad

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative φαῦλος φαύλη φαῦλον
Genitive φαύλου φαύλης φαύλου
Dative φαύλῳ φαύλῃ φαύλῳ
Accusative φαῦλον φαύλην φαῦλον
Vocative φαῦλε φαύλη φαῦλον
DualN/A/V φαύλω φαύλᾱ φαύλω
G/D φαύλοιν φαύλαιν φαύλοιν
PluralNominative φαῦλοι φαῦλαι φαῦλα
Genitive φαύλων φαυλῶν φαύλων
Dative φαύλοις φαύλαις φαύλοις
Accusative φαύλους φαύλᾱς φαῦλα
Vocative φαῦλοι φαῦλαι φαῦλα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective φαῦλος φαύλου φαυλότερος φαυλοτέρου φαυλότατος φαυλοτάτου
Adverb φαύλως φαυλότερον φαυλότατα

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

  • νῦν δὲ τοῖσ περὶ τὴν ἡμετέραν γένεσιν δημιουργοῖσ, ἀναλογιζομένοισ πότερον πολυχρονιώτερον χεῖρον ἢ βραχυχρονιώτερον βέλτιον ἀπεργάσαιντο γένοσ, συνέδοξεν τοῦ πλείονοσ βίου, φαυλοτέρου δέ, τὸν ἐλάττονα ἀμείνονα ὄντα παντὶ πάντωσ αἱρετέον· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 377:2)
  • ἄγειν βίᾳ τὸν κρείττω τὰ τῶν ἡττόνων καὶ ἄρχειν τὸν βελτίω τῶν χειρόνων καὶ πλέον ἔχειν τὸν ἀμείνω τοῦ φαυλοτέρου; (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 251:2)
  • ‐ Ἀγαθὰ δὲ τὰ τοῦ κρατίστου κρείττονά ἐστιν ἢ τὰ τοῦ φαυλοτέρου; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. easy

  2. sorry

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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