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κίβδηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κίβδηλος κίβδηλον

Structure: κιβδηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ki/bdos

Sense

  1. adulterated, spurious, base
  2. base, false, spurious, fraudulent, deceitful

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ εὐγενεῖσ μέν, ἐν δὲ κιβδήλῳ τόδε· (Euripides, episode 3:3)
  • πρῶτον μὲν κιβδήλῳ τῇ διαιρέσει χρώμενοι· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 9 1:2)
  • ταῦτα ὡσ ἀπενειχθέντα ἤκουσαν οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι,Ἀρκάδων μὲν τῶν ἄλλων ἀπείχοντο, οἳ δὲ πέδασ φερόμενοι ἐπὶ Τεγεήτασ ἐστρατεύοντο, χρησμῷ κιβδήλῳ πίσυνοι, ὡσ δὴ ἐξανδραποδιούμενοι τοὺσ Τεγεήτασ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 66 4:1)

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

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