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κακολόγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακολόγος κακολόγον

Structure: κακολογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw

Sense

  1. evil-speaking

Examples

  • Ἔστι δὲ ἡ κακολογία ἀγωγὴ ψυχῆσ εἰσ τὸ χεῖρον ἐν λόγοισ, ὁ δὲ κακολόγοσ τοιόσδε τισ, οἱο͂σ ἐρωτηθείσ· (Theophrastus, Characters, 1:1)
  • διόπερ οὐδὲ κακολόγοσ, οὐδὲ τῶν ἐχθρῶν, εἰ μὴ δι’ ὕβριν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 91:4)

Synonyms

  1. evil-speaking

Related

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

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