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καινουργός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καινουργός

Structure: καινουργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/rgw

Sense

  1. producing changes, a novelty

Examples

  • ὃ ποιεῖν εἰώθεν ὁ δαιμονιώτατοσ Ὅμηροσ καίπερ μέτρον ἔχων ἓν ὡσ καὶ ῥυθμοὺσ ὀλίγουσ, ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ ἀεί τι καινουργῶν ἐν αὐτοῖσ καὶ φιλοτεχνῶν, ὥστε μηδὲν ἡμῖν διαφέρειν γινόμενα τὰ πράγματα ἢ λεγόμενα ὁρᾶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2014)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν θεὸσ διὰ τὴν πρὸσ Δαυίδην ὁμολογίαν οὐκ ἐβούλετο τούτου τὸ γένοσ ἐξαφανίσαι, Ιὤραμοσ δ’ οὐ διέλειπεν ἑκάστησ ἡμέρασ καινουργῶν ἐπ’ ἀσεβείᾳ καὶ λύμῃ τῶν ἐπιχωρίων ἐθισμῶν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 9 116:2)

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

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