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κακόζηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακόζηλος κακόζηλον

Structure: κακοζηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. imitating unhappily.

Examples

  • ὁρῶμεν δὲ καὶ ποιητὰσ καὶ ῥήτορασ, ὅσοι φεύγουσι τὸ περὶ τὴν λέξιν ὀχλικὸν καὶ ἀνελεύθερον καὶ κακόζηλον, τοῖσ πράγμασι καὶ ταῖσ οἰκονομίαισ καὶ τοῖσ ἤθεσιν ἄγειν καὶ κινεῖν τὸν ἀκροατὴν φιλοτεχνοῦντασ. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 29 1:2)
  • ῥήτωρ Καλλατιανόσ, κακόζηλοσ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. QALHS 17:4)

Synonyms

  1. imitating unhappily

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

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