Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • Οἱ οὖν ἰητροὶ μάλιστα ἐξαπατέονται ἐν τούτῳ τῷ τρώματι ἁ̔́τε γὰρ ἀνασχόντοσ τοῦ ὀστέου τοῦ ἀποσπασθέντοσ, ἡ ἐπωμὶσ φαίνεται χαμαιζήλη καὶ κοίλἠ, ὥστε καὶ προμηθέεσθαι τῶν ὤμων τῶν ἐκπεπτωκότων‧ πολλοὺσ οὖν οἶδα ἰητροὺσ, τἄλλα οὐ φλαύρουσ ἐόντασ, οἳ πολλὰ ἤδη ἐλυμήναντο, ἐμβάλλειν πειρώμενοι τοὺσ τοιούτουσ ὤμουσ, οὕτωσ οἰόμενοι ἐκπεπτωκέναι, καὶ οὐ πρόσθεν παύονται, πρὶν ἢ ἀπογνῶναι, ἢ ἀπορῆσαι, δοκέοντεσ αὐτοὶ σφέασ αὐτοὺσ ἐμβάλλειν τὸν ὦμον. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 13.2)

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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