μαλακός
Second declension Noun; Masculine
자동번역
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
μαλακός
μαλακοῦ
Structure:
μαλακ
(Stem)
+
ος
(Ending)
Sense
- the passive partner in a male homosexual act, catamite
- male prostitute (whose customers are also male)
Declension
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.
- λόγοι κερκώπων μαλακοί, οὗτοι δὲ τύπτουσιν εἰσ ταμιεῖα σπλάγχνων. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 26:23)
- διὸ καὶ Πτολεμαῖοσ ὁ δεύτεροσ Εὐεργέτησ Αἰγύπτου βασιλεύσασ παρ’ Ὁμήρῳ ἀξιοῖ γράφειν ἀμφὶ δὲ λειμῶνεσ μαλακοὶ σίου ἠδὲ σελίνου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5291)
- οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ἐκείνοισ ἐμπειρία γε παρῆν τοῦ μάχεσθαι καὶ τὸ κάμνειν ἐθάδεσ ὄντεσ οὐκ ἔφευγον, οὗτοι δὲ μαλακοὶ μὲν ἦσαν ὑπὸ σχολῆσ καὶ διαίτησ ἀπολέμου, πλεῖστον χρόνον ἐν θεάτροισ καὶ πανηγύρεσι καὶ παρὰ σκηνὴν βεβιωκότεσ, ὕβρει δὲ καὶ κόμπῳ ἐπαμπέχειν ἐβούλοντο, προσποιήσασθαι τὰσ λειτουργίασ ὡσ κρείττονεσ ἀπαξιοῦντεσ, οὐχ ὡσ ἀδύνατοι φέρειν. (Plutarch, Otho, chapter 5 4:3)
- διὸ καὶ σφόδρα τινὲσ ὄντεσ μαλακοὶ περὶ ἔνια ἀνδρεῖοι εἰσί, καὶ ἔνιοι σκληροὶ καὶ καρτερικοὶ καὶ δειλοί. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 32:1)
- ἐνίοισι δὲ ἐσ πνεύμονα ἡ ξύνδοσισ Ῥηϊδίωσ · οἱ δὲ μεταστάσι θνήσκουσι· πυρετοὶ νωθροὶ, μαλακοὶ, οὐδὲν ὠφελέοντεσ . (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 72)
Synonyms
-
the passive partner in a male homosexual act
- ἀρσενοκοίτης (specifically, the active partner in male homosexual activity, as opposed to the passive partner )
-
male prostitute
