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κίμβιξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κίμβιξ κίμβικος

Structure: κιμβικ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a niggard

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἐν ταῖσ τοιαύταισ προσηγορίαισ οἱο͂ν φειδωλοὶ γλίσχροι κίμβικεσ, πάντεσ τῇ δόσει ἐλλείπουσι, τῶν δ’ ἀλλοτρίων οὐκ ἐφίενται οὐδὲ βούλονται λαμβάνειν, οἳ μὲν διά τινα ἐπιείκειαν καὶ εὐλάβειαν τῶν αἰσχρῶν δοκοῦσι γὰρ ἔνιοι ἢ φασί γε διὰ τοῦτο φυλάττειν, ἵνα μή ποτ’ ἀναγκασθῶσιν αἰσχρόν τι πρᾶξαι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 34:1)

Synonyms

  1. a niggard

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

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