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μαλακός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαλακός μαλακοῦ

Structure: μαλακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the passive partner in a male homosexual act, catamite
  2. 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.

Examples

  • Ἕρμιπποσ δέ που ποιεῖ τὸν Διόνυσον πλειόνων μεμνημένον Μενδαίῳ μὲν καὶ ἐνουροῦσιν θεοὶ αὐτοὶ στρώμασιν ἐν μαλακοῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 53 1:1)
  • καὶ λόγοσ ἐχώρει δι’ αὐτῶν πολὺσ ἀλλήλοισ παρεγγυώντων, ὡσ οὔτε ὅπλα βελτίω λαβόντεσ οὔτε ψυχὰσ ἀμείνουσ οἱ πολέμιοι τῶν ἐν Μαραθῶνι προσίασιν, ἀλλὰ ταὐτὰ μὲν ἐκείνοισ τόξα, ταὐτὰ δ’ ἐσθῆτοσ ποικίλματα καὶ χρυσὸσ ἐπὶ σώμασι μαλακοῖσ καὶ ψυχαῖσ ἀνάνδροισ· (Plutarch, , chapter 16 4:1)
  • ὄμβροισ δὲ χρώμεναι μετρίοισ σπανίωσ, τὰ δὲ πλεῖστα πνεύμασι μαλακοῖσ καὶ δροσοβόλοισ, οὐ μόνον ἀροῦν καὶ φυτεύειν παρέχουσιν ἀγαθὴν καὶ πίονα χώραν, ἀλλὰ καὶ καρπὸν αὐτοφυῆ φέρουσιν ἀποχρῶντα πλήθει καὶ γλυκύτητι βόσκειν ἄνευ πόνων καὶ πραγματείασ σχολάζοντα δῆμον. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 8 2:2)
  • τὸν δ’ ὅγε κεκλιμένον μαλακοῖσ ἐνὶ κώεσιν οἰῶν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 19:7)
  • ᾀσεῖ δ’ ὥσ ποκ’ ἔδεκτο τὸν αἰπόλον εὐρέα λάρναξ ζωὸν ἐόντα κακαῖσιν ἀτασθαλίαισιν ἄνακτοσ, ὥσ τέ νιν αἱ σιμαὶ λειμωνόθε φέρβον ἰοῖσαι κέδρον ἐσ ἁδεῖαν μαλακοῖσ ἄνθεσσι μέλισσαι, οὕνεκά οἱ γλυκὺ Μοῖσα κατὰ στόματοσ χέε νέκταρ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 38)

Synonyms

  1. the passive partner in a male homosexual act

  2. male prostitute

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