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μάταιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάταιος μάταιᾱ μάταιον

Structure: μαται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ma/th

Sense

  1. vain, empty, idle, trifling, frivolous
  2. thoughtless, rash, irreverent, profane, impious, seriousness, gravity
  3. idly, without ground

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative μάταιος ματαίᾱ μάταιον
Genitive ματαίου ματαίᾱς ματαίου
Dative ματαίῳ ματαίᾱͅ ματαίῳ
Accusative μάταιον ματαίᾱν μάταιον
Vocative μάταιε ματαίᾱ μάταιον
DualN/A/V ματαίω ματαίᾱ ματαίω
G/D ματαίοιν ματαίαιν ματαίοιν
PluralNominative μάταιοι μάταιαι μάταια
Genitive ματαίων ματαιῶν ματαίων
Dative ματαίοις ματαίαις ματαίοις
Accusative ματαίους ματαίᾱς μάταια
Vocative μάταιοι μάταιαι μάταια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective μάταιος ματαίου ματαιώτερος ματαιωτέρου ματαιώτατος ματαιωτάτου
Adverb ματαίως ματαιώτερον ματαιώτατα

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

  • "ὦ μάταιε, τί σοι χρηστὸν εἶναι δοκεῖ παρὰ τὸν βίον οὗ μηκέτι μεθέξομεν ; (Lucian, (no name) 16:7)
  • τοῦ δ’ ἔφεξιν ὦ μάταιε ταῦτα δρᾶν σε βούλεται; (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, proepirrheme5)
  • τί δακρύεισ, ὦ μάταιε; (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 8:2)
  • Οὔκ, ὦ μάταιε· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 7:3)
  • μὴ μ’, ὦ μάταιε ναῦτα, τὴν ἄκραν κάμπτων χλεύην τε ποιεῦ καὶ γέλωτα καὶ λάσθην· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 13 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. vain

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

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