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κερδαλέος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κερδαλέος κερδαλέᾱ κερδαλέον

Structure: κερδαλε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ke/rdos

Sense

  1. having an eye to gain, wily, crafty, cunning
  2. gainful, profitable, to one's advantage

Examples

  • τὰ μέταλλ’ αὐτοῖσ μαντευομένοισ οὗτοι δώσουσι τὰ χρηστά, τάσ τ’ ἐμπορίασ τὰσ κερδαλέασ πρὸσ τὸν μάντιν κατεροῦσιν, ὥστ’ ἀπολεῖται τῶν ναυκλήρων οὐδείσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antepirrheme 1:3)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ Ἀσπασίᾳ Ἱππόνικον μὲν τὸν Καλλίου κοάλεμον προσαγορεύει, τὰσ δ’ ἐκ τῆσ Ιὠνίασ γυναῖκασ συλλήβδην μοιχάδασ καὶ κερδαλέασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 622)

Synonyms

  1. having an eye to gain

  2. gainful

Related

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

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