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κολακευτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολακευτικός κολακευτική κολακευτικόν

Structure: κολακευτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from kolakeu/w

Sense

  1. disposed to flatter, flattering, fawning

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἐνίουσ δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐγνωρίσαμεν ἰδόντεσ, ὁπόσοι ἦσαν τῶν ἔναγχοσ τετελευτηκότων οἱ δὲ ἐνεκαλύπτοντό τε καὶ ἀπεστρέφοντο, εἰ δὲ καὶ προσβλέποιεν, μάλα δουλοπρεπέσ τι καὶ κολακευτικόν, καὶ ταῦτα πῶσ οἰεί βαρεῖσ ὄντεσ καὶ ὑπερόπται παρὰ τὸν βίον; (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 14:4)
  • "ἐκεῖνοσ μέντοι ἐλεύθεροσ ἀνὴρ ἦν καὶ παρρησίασ μεστόσ, οὐδὲν οὔτε κολακευτικὸν οὔτε δουλοπρεπέσ, ἀλλ̓ ἀλήθεια ἐπὶ πᾶσι. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 61 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. disposed to flatter

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

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