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μαλακότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαλακότης μαλακότητος

Structure: μαλακοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from malako/s

Sense

  1. softness
  2. weakness, effeminacy

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

  • τὸ δὲ σφοδρὸν ἐκεῖνο καὶ διάπυρον πρὸσ ὀργὴν ὁρῶντί μοι πρᾶον οὕτω καὶ χειρόηθεσ τῷ λογισμῷ γεγενημένον ἐπέρχεται πρὸσ τὸν θυμὸν εἰπεῖν ὢ πόποι, ἦ μάλα δὴ μαλακώτεροσ αὓτη δ’ ἡ μαλακότησ οὐκ ἀργίαν οὐδ’ ἔκλυσιν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἡ κατειργασμένη γῆ λειότητα καὶ βάθοσ ἐνεργὸν ἐπὶ τὰσ πράξεισ ἔσχηκεν ἀντὶ τῆσ φορᾶσ ἐκείνησ καὶ τῆσ ὀξύτητοσ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 1 7:1)
  • αὕτη δ’ ἡ μαλακότησ οὐκ ἀργίαν οὐδ’ ἔκλυσιν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἡ κατειργασμένη γῆ λειότητα καὶ βάθοσ ἐνεργὸν ἐπὶ τὰσ πράξεισ ἔσχηκεν ἀντὶ τῆσ φορᾶσ ἐκείνησ καὶ τῆσ ὀξύτητοσ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 1 2:2)
  • σκληρότησ μὲν οὖν καὶ μαλακότησ καὶ γλισχρότησ καὶ κραυρότησ καὶ κουφότησ καὶ βαρύτησ καὶ πυκνότησ καὶ ἀραιότησ καὶ λειότησ καὶ τραχύτησ καὶ παχύτησ καὶ λεπτότησ ἁπταὶ διαφοραὶ καὶ εἴρηται περὶ πασῶν Ἀριστοτέλει καλῶσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 65)

Synonyms

  1. weakness

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

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