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μεγάλαυχος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγάλαυχος μεγάλαυχον

Structure: μεγαλαυχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: au)xe/w

Sense

  1. greatly boasting, very glorious

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative μεγάλαυχος μεγάλαυχον
Genitive μεγαλαύχου μεγαλαύχου
Dative μεγαλαύχῳ μεγαλαύχῳ
Accusative μεγάλαυχον μεγάλαυχον
Vocative μεγάλαυχε μεγάλαυχον
DualN/A/V μεγαλαύχω μεγαλαύχω
G/D μεγαλαύχοιν μεγαλαύχοιν
PluralNominative μεγάλαυχοι μεγάλαυχα
Genitive μεγαλαύχων μεγαλαύχων
Dative μεγαλαύχοις μεγαλαύχοις
Accusative μεγαλαύχους μεγάλαυχα
Vocative μεγάλαυχοι μεγάλαυχα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective μεγάλαυχος μεγαλαύχου μεγαλαυχότερος μεγαλαυχοτέρου μεγαλαυχότατος μεγαλαυχοτάτου
Adverb μεγαλαύχως μεγαλαυχότερον μεγαλαυχότατα

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

  • καὶ ἄλλωσ ἐν τῷ Θεαιτήτῳ πολλὰ μεγάλαυχα καὶ σοβαρὰ Σωκράτει περιτέθεικεν, ὧν καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐστί· (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 1, section 1 2:2)
  • μάλιστα δὲ τοῦτο πάσχει τὰ σκληρὰ καὶ μεγάλαυχα φρονήματα καὶ τοὺσ ὁρ́ουσ ἐκβαίνοντα τῆσ ἀνθρωπίνησ φύσεωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 25 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. greatly boasting

Related

Similar forms

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

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