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φλαῦρος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: phlauros

Principal Part: φλαῦρος φλαῦρα φλαῦρον

Structure: φλαυρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: collat. form of φαῦλος

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

  • εὐφημεῖν χρὴ καὶ μὴ φλαῦρον μηδὲν γρύζειν ἀλλ ὀλολύζειν: (Aristophanes, Peace, Prologue, anapests11)
  • ἀλλὰ νυνὶ σπένδομαί σοι, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν οὐκέτι οὔτε δράσω φλαῦρον οὐδὲν οὔθ ὑφ ὑμῶν πείσομαι. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, trochees26)
  • οὐ παρασκευαζόμεσθα τῶν πολιτῶν οὐδέν ὦνδρες φλαῦρον εἰπεῖν οὐδὲ ἕν. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, strophe 11)
  • εὐστόμει καὶ μηδὲν εἴπῃς φλαῦρον ἄνδρας δεξιοὺς καὶ νοῦν ἔχοντας: (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics24)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄν με φλαῦρον ἐργάσαισθ ἔτι, οἱο῀ς ἐμοὶ τρέφεται τοῖσδ ἐνὶ δώμασι παῖς, ἀμφήκει γλώττῃ λάμπων, πρόβολος ἐμός, σωτὴρ δόμοις, ἐχθροῖς βλάβη, λυσανίας πατρῴων μεγάλων κακῶν: (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, lyric3)

Synonyms

  1. petty

  2. paltry

  3. useless

  4. shabby

  5. bad

Related

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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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