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μεγαλήγορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγαλήγορος μεγαλήγορον

Structure: μεγαληγορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)goreu/w

Sense

  1. talking big, vaunting, boastful

Examples

  • "καίτοι τὸν οἶκτον ἐξῄρει τῶν θεωμένων τὸ θαρραλέον αὐτῆσ καὶ μεγαλήγορον, ᾧ καὶ μάλιστα παρώξυνε τὸν Οὐεσπασιανόν, ὡσ ἀπέγνω τῆσ σωτηρίασ πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἀλλαγὴν κελεύουσα· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 2522)
  • καὶ τὸ μεγαλήγορον αὐτοῦ τοῦτο οὐχ ὑπέρογκον μᾶλλόν τι ἢ εὐθαρσὲσ ἐν τοῖσ κινδύνοισ ἐφαίνετο· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 10 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. talking big

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

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