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κατάκορος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάκορος κατάκορον

Structure: κατακορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = katakorh/s

Sense

  1. to excess, intemperately

Examples

  • δυσκίνητοι γάρ εἰσι καὶ δυσμετάβλητοι πρὸσ τὰσ ἀντιλήψεισ τῶν ποιοτήτων, ἂν μὴ κατάκοροι καὶ σφοδραὶ προσπέσωσιν αἰτία δ’ ἡ τῆσ ἕξεωσ ἄνεσισ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. to excess

Related

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

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