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κουφολογία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κουφολογία

Structure: κουφολογι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from koufolo/gos

Sense

  1. light talking

Declension

First 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 δὲ ὑπὸ ἀγνοίασ τῶν περὶ αὐτοὺσ ἐχλεύαζον ἐπὶ τοῖσ λεγομένοισ καὶ τῆσ κουφολογίασ τὸν οἰκέτην ἐθαύμαζον τολμῶντα αἰτίαν ἐπιφέρειν ἀνδράσιν, οἳ μηδὲ τὴν τοῦ σίτου τιμὴν ἐν τοῖσ σακκίοισ αὐτῶν εὑρεθεῖσαν κατέσχον, ἀλλ’ ἐκόμισαν μηδενὸσ εἰδότοσ τὸ πραχθέν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 165:1)

Synonyms

  1. light talking

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

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