Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἠλίθιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἠλίθιος ἠλίθιη ἠλίθιον

Structure: ἠλιθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h)/liqa

Sense

  1. idle, vain, random
  2. stupid, foolish, silly

Examples

  • ὡσ ἠλίθιά γε σου, ὦ· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 58:3)
  • λέγετε γάρ με, ἅπερ καὶ σὺ νῦν λέγεισ, ὡσ ἠλίθιά τε καὶ σμικρὰ καὶ οὐδενὸσ ἄξια πραγματεύομαι· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 141:2)

Synonyms

  1. idle

  2. stupid

Related

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

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