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φυγοπονία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυγοπονία

Structure: φυγοπονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from fugo/ponos

Sense

  1. aversion to work

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

  • ἐπιμελητὴν δὲ τῆσ οὐραγίασ τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἀπέλιπε Μάγωνα τῶν τε λοιπῶν χάριν καὶ μάλιστα τῆσ τῶν Κελτῶν μαλακίασ καὶ φυγοπονίασ, ἵν’ ἐὰν κακοπαθοῦντεσ τρέπωνται πάλιν εἰσ τοὐπίσω, κωλύῃ διὰ τῶν ἱππέων καὶ προσφέρῃ τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτοῖσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 3, chapter 79 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. aversion to work

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

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