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ἰσχνόφωνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰσχνόφωνος ἰσχνόφωνον

Structure: ἰσχνοφων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fwnh/

Sense

  1. checked in one's voice, stuttering, stammering

Examples

  • εἶπε δὲ Μωυσῆσ πρὸσ Κύριον. δέομαι, Κύριε, οὐχ ἱκανόσ εἰμι πρὸ τῆσ χθέσ, οὐδὲ πρὸ τῆσ τρίτησ ἡμέρασ, οὐδὲ ἀφ̓ οὗ ἤρξω λαλεῖν τῷ θεράποντί σου. ἰσχνόφωνοσ καὶ βραδύγλωσσοσ ἐγώ εἰμι. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 4:10)
  • "ὥσπερ οὖν τὸ κινοῦν τὸ πεζὸν οὐ δύναται κινῆσαι πτητικῶσ, οὐδὲ τορῶσ τὸ τραυλὸν οὐδ’ εὐφώνωσ τὸ ἰσχνόφωνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν Βάττον, οἶμαι, διὰ τοῦτ’ ἐπὶ τὴν φωνὴν παραγενόμενον εἰσ Λιβύην ἔπεμψεν οἰκιστήν, ὅτι τραυλὸσ μὲν ἦν καὶ ἰσχνόφωνοσ βασιλικὸσ δὲ καὶ πολιτικὸσ καὶ φρόνιμοσ· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 228)
  • καὶ εἶπε Μωυσῆσ ἐναντίον Κυρίου. ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἰσχνόφωνόσ εἰμι, καὶ πῶσ εἰσακούσεταί μου Φαραώ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 6:30)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἠνδρώθη, τῶν μὲν πολιτικῶν πραγμάτων ἀπέσχετο ἰσχνόφωνὸσ τ’ ὢν καὶ εὐλαβὴσ τὸν τρόπον καὶ τὰ πατρῷα· (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 7:1)
  • ἰσχνόφωνόσ τε, φασίν, ἦν, ὡσ καὶ Τιμόθεόσ φησιν ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ ἐν τῷ Περὶ βίων. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, G, PLATWN 4:1)

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

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