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φλυαρία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φλυαρία

Structure: φλυαρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from flua_re/w

Sense

  1. silly talk, nonsense, foolery, fooleries

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἄνευ γὰρ σωφροσύνησ καὶ δικαιοσύνησ λιμένων καὶ νεωρίων καὶ τειχῶν καὶ φόρων καὶ τοιούτων φλυαριῶν ἐμπεπλήκασι τὴν πόλιν· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 439:1)
  • οὕτωσ οὐκ ἄνευ δικαιοσύνησ οὐδὲ σωφροσύνησ, ὦ Πλάτων, ἐνέπλησαν τὴν πόλιν συμμάχων καὶ φόρων καὶ φλυαριῶν, ὡσ σὺ φῂσ, ἀλλ’ ἀπὸ σώφρονοσ καὶ δικαίασ καὶ θαυμαστῆσ ἀρξάμενοι τῆσ ἀρχῆσ, καὶ τοὺσ τῆσ ἐλευθερίασ ὁρ́ουσ κάλλιστα ἐφύλαξαν, μέσην αὐθαδείασ καὶ ταπεινότητοσ ἄγοντεσ τοὺσ πολίτασ, καὶ οὐ τὴν ἀνέδην, οὐδὲ ἣν οὑτωσί τισ ἂν φήσειεν ἐλευθερίαν εἰσάγοντεσ, ἀλλὰ τὴν μετὰ τοῦ δικαίου καὶ τοῦ σωφρονεῖν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 87:8)
  • οὐ γὰρ καὶ περὶ ἐκείνου γ’ ἔμελλεν ἐρήσεσθαι τίνα βελτίω τῶν δούλων ἢ τῶν ἐλευθέρων ἐποίησεν, οὐδ’ ὡσ ἄνευ τάξεωσ καὶ κοσμιότητοσ τὴν πόλιν φόρων καὶ φλυαριῶν ἐνέπλησεν ὀνειδιεῖν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 163:1)

Synonyms

  1. silly talk

Related

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

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