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κακόσπλαγχνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακόσπλαγχνος κακόσπλαγχνον

Structure: κακοσπλαγχν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: spla/gxnon

Sense

  1. faint-hearted

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ὡσ πολίτασ μὴ κακοσπλάγχνουσ τιθῇσ, εὔκηλοσ ἴσθι μηδ’ ἄγαν ὑπερφοβοῦ. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 34)

Synonyms

  1. faint-hearted

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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