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κεφαλαλγής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεφαλαλγής κεφαλαλγές

Structure: κεφαλαλγη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)lge/w

Sense

  1. causing headache

Examples

  • "ὑπὲρ τοῦτον ἐκπίπτων τὸν χρόνον κεφαλαλγὴσ καὶ τοῦ νευρώδουσ καθάπτεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 484)
  • τό τε γὰρ φέρον αὐτὰ δένδρον τοιοῦτον καὶ ὁ πλέον τῶν ἑπτὰ τοῦ καρποῦ φαγὼν κεφαλαλγὴσ γίνεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 35 1:2)
  • "ἦν δὲ σφόδρα καὶ τοῦτο κεφαλαλγέσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 85 1:3)
  • "καὶ ἦν παρὰ πότον ἡδὺ μέν, κεφαλαλγὲσ δέ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 6250)
  • μὲν οὐδαμῶσ κεφαλαλγὲσ δὲ καὶ κοπῶδεσ ἰσχυρῶσ ἐστιν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 20 8:2)
  • "καὶ γὰρ καὶ ὄψον πονηρὸν ἔστι παρώσασθαι, κἂν οἶνοσ ᾖ φαῦλοσ, ἐπὶ τὰσ νύμφασ καταφυγεῖν σύνδειπνοσ δὲ κεφαλαλγὴσ καὶ βαρὺσ καὶ ἀνάγωγοσ παντὸσ μὲν οἴνου καὶ ὄψου πάσησ δὲ μουσουργοῦ χάριν ἀπόλλυσι καὶ λυμαίνεται, καὶ οὐδ’ ἀπεμέσαι τὴν τοιαύτην ἀηδίαν ἕτοιμόν ἐστιν, ἀλλ’ ἐνίοισ εἰσ ἅπαντα τὸν βίον ἐμμένει τὸ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ δυσάρεστον, ὥσπερ ἑωλοκρασία τισ ὕβρεωσ ἢ ὀργῆσ ἐν οἴνῳ γενομένησ. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 2 12:6)

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

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