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φαυλότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φαυλότης φαυλότητος

Structure: φαυλοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from fau=los

Sense

  1. meanness, paltriness, pettiness, badness, want, lack
  2. plainness, simplicity

Declension

Third declension

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

  • εἰ γὰρ τοῦτό ἐστι σοφία, τὸ μηδὲν εἰδέναι, τὸ πάντα εἰδέναι φαυλότησ ἂν εἰή. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 60 1:2)
  • πρῶτον ἐκεῖνο μνημονεύειν, ὅτι παντὸσ ἅπτεται γένουσ φιλίασ ἡ φαυλότησ καὶ κατὰ τὸν Σοφοκλέα τὰ πλεῖστα φωρῶν αἰσχρὰ φωράσεισ βροτῶν. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 8 1:1)
  • πρῶτον ἐκεῖνο μνημονεύειν, ὅτι παντὸσ ἅπτεται γένουσ φιλίασ ἡ φαυλότησ, καὶ κατὰ τὸν Σοφοκλέα τὰ πλεῖστα φωρῶν αἰσχρὰ φωράσεισ βροτῶν. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 82)
  • ἀσινεστέρα γὰρ ἡ φαυλότησ ἀεὶ ἡ τοῦ μὴ ἔχοντοσ ἀρχήν, ὁ δὲ νοῦσ ἀρχή. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 86:4)
  • φαυλότησ γάρ ἐστι μοναρχίασ ἡ τυραννίσ, ὁ δὲ μοχθηρὸσ βασιλεὺσ τύραννοσ γίνεται. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 103:2)

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

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