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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

  • βασκανία γὰρ φαυλότητοσ ἀμαυροῖ τὰ καλά, καὶ ρεμβασμὸσ ἐπιθυμίασ μεταλλεύει νοῦν ἄκακον. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 4:12)
  • δὲ τοῦ ἤθουσ μοχθηρίαν συντομώτατα καὶ δι’ ἑνὸσ ἔφρασεν, ἔχθιστοσ δ’ Ἀχιλῆι μάλιστ’ ἦν ἠδ’ Ὀδυσῆι ὑπερβολὴ γάρ τισ φαυλότητοσ τὸ τοῖσ κρατίστοισ ἐχθρὸν εἶναι. (Plutarch, De invidia et odio, section 5 5:1)
  • πρώτιστα μὲν σπουδαῖα τοὺσ τρόπουσ, ἔτι μέντοι Ἑλληνικὰ καὶ περίτρανα λαλεῖν, ἵνα μὴ συναναχρωννύμενοι βαρβάροισ καὶ τὸ ἦθοσ μοχθηροῖσ ἀποφέρωνταὶ τι τῆσ ἐκείνων φαυλότητοσ. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 6 2:1)
  • "τοὺσ δὲ πολλοὺσ τῶν χρησμῶν ὁρῶμεν καὶ τοῖσ μέτροισ καὶ τοῖσ ὀνόμασι πλημμελείασ καὶ φαυλότητοσ ἀναπεπλησμένουσ. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 5 3:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀκαρὲσ χρόνου καὶ ὡρ́ασ ἐκ τῆσ ὡσ ἔνι μάλιστα φαυλότητοσ εἰσ οὐκ ἔχουσαν ὑπερβολὴν ἀρετῆσ διάθεσιν μεταβαλὼν ὁ σοφόσ, ἧσ οὐδ’ ἐν χρόνῳ πολλῷ μέροσ ἀφεῖλε κακίασ ἅμα πᾶσαν ἐξαίφνησ ἐκπέφευγε. (Plutarch, Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus, chapter, section 1 6:1)

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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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