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κακοφραδής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακοφραδής κακοφραδές

Structure: κακοφραδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fra/zomai

Sense

  1. bad in counsel

Examples

  • αἰᾶν νεῖκοσ ἄριστε, κακοφραδέσ καὶ Ἰδομενεῦ, τί πάροσ λαβρεύεαι; (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 13 20:1)
  • ἔρροισ, ὦ κακόμαντι, κακοφραδέσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 15:21)
  • Αἰᾶν νεῖκοσ ἄριστε κακοφραδὲσ ἄλλά τε πάντα δεύεαι Ἀργείων, ὅτι τοι νόοσ ἐστὶν ἀπηνήσ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 23 44:2)

Synonyms

  1. bad in counsel

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

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