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

  • οἱο͂ν τὸ πραγμάτων ἐρᾶν φλαύρων· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Choral, strophe1)
  • Ὅσοι μὲν ἀναγκάζονται ὑπὸ τῶν αὐτίκα νεοτρώτων ἐόντων, μὴ ἔχοντεσ ὀθόνια, εἰρίοισι παρασκευάσασθαι, τουτέοισι πλείστη συγγνώμη‧ οὐ γὰρ ἄν τισ ἔχοι ἄνευ ὀθονίων ἄλλο τι πολλῷ βέλτιον εἰρίου ἐπιδῆσαι ἐπὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα‧ εἶναι δὲ χρὴ πάμπολλα, καὶ πάνυ καλῶσ εἰργασμένα, καὶ μὴ τρηχέα‧ τῶν γὰρ ὀλίγων καὶ φλαύρων ὀλίγη καὶ ἡ δύναμισ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 31.2)

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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