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κολάκευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολάκευμα κολάκευματος

Structure: κολακευματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a piece of flattery

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

  • Αὐτάγγελον δὲ τῆσ νίκησ τῷ πατρὶ τὸν Μιλήσιον Ἀριστόδημον ἔπεμψε, πρωτεύοντα κολακείᾳ τῶν αὐλικῶν ἁπάντων, καὶ τότε παρεσκευασ μένον, ὡσ ἐοίκε, των κολακευμάτων τὸ μέγιστον ἐπενεγκεῖν τοῖσ πράγμασιν. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 17 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a piece of flattery

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

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