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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

  • "λέγουσι γουσι δὲ τοῦ πηγάνου τὸ φυόμενον ὑπ’ αὐτῇ καὶ παραφυτευόμενον ἣδιον εἶναι καὶ τῷ χυμῷ μαλακώτερον, ὡσ ἂν ἀπολαῦόν τινὸσ γλυκύτητοσ, κατασβέννυται τἄγαν βαρὺ καὶ κατάκορον, εἰ μὴ νὴ Δία τοὐναντίον ἡ συκῆ περισπῶσα τὴν τροφὴν ἐξαιρεῖ τὸ τῆσ δριμύτητοσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 7:2)

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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