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φλαῦρος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φλαῦρος φλαῦρᾱ φλαῦρον

Structure: φλαυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: collat. form of fau=los

Sense

  1. petty, paltry, trivial
  2. paltry, sorry, indifferent, bad, a mischief, disparagingly
  3. useless
  4. the meanest or weakest, the least serviceable part
  5. shabby, plain
  6. bad
  7. ill, ill off, badly, ill

Examples

  • καὶ γὰρ ἂν χρηστοὶ τότε ἐόντεσ ὡυτοὶ νῦν ἂν εἰε͂ν φλαυρότεροι, καὶ τότε ἐόντεσ φλαῦροι νῦν ἂν εἰε͂ν ἀμείνονεσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 27 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. petty

  2. paltry

  3. useless

  4. shabby

  5. bad

Related

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

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