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φιλοσκώμμων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλοσκώμμων φιλοσκώμμον

Structure: φιλοσκωμμων (Stem)

Sense

  1. fond of scoffing or jesting

Examples

  • ἀεὶ φιλοσκώμμων σύ γε. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 45:4)
  • "ὅτε ἰδιώτησ, φησίν, ἦν, φιλοπότησ ὑπῆρχε καὶ φιλοσκώμμων καὶ οὐ κατεσπουδασμένοσ ἀνήρ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 78 1:1)
  • Φιλωνίδησ δέ τισ, ἀνὴρ γελοῖοσ καὶ φιλοσκώμμων, Ποστουμίῳ τῷ τῆσ πρεσβείασ ἡγουμένῳ προσελθὼν ἀπεστράφη τε, καὶ ἐπικύψασ τὴν ἐσθῆτα ἀνεσύρατο τὴν ἑαυτοῦ, καὶ τοῦ πρεσβευτοῦ κατησχημόνησεν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 13:4)
  • λέγεται δὲ ὁ Ἄμασισ, καὶ ὅτε ἦν ἰδιώτησ, ὡσ φιλοπότησ ἦν καὶ φιλοσκώμμων καὶ οὐδαμῶσ κατεσπουδασμένοσ ἀνήρ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 174 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. fond of scoffing or jesting

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

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