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κακοφυής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακοφυής κακοφυές

Structure: κακοφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fuh/

Sense

  1. of bad natural qualities

Examples

  • τοὺσ μὲν εὐφυεῖσ τὰ σώματα καὶ τὰσ ψυχὰσ θεραπεύσουσι, τοὺσ δὲ μή, ὅσοι μὲν κατὰ σῶμα τοιοῦτοι, ἀποθνῄσκειν ἐάσουσιν, τοὺσ δὲ κατὰ τὴν ψυχὴν κακοφυεῖσ καὶ ἀνιάτουσ αὐτοὶ ἀποκτενοῦσιν; (Plato, Republic, book 3 480:1)

Synonyms

  1. of bad natural qualities

Similar forms

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

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