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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

  • "ἐμεγαληγόρει ἄλλοτε δ’ οὐ μεγαλήγοροσ ἦν. (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 16 6:1)
  • ἄλλωσ δ’ οὐ μάλα μεγαλήγοροσ ἦν· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 21:6)
  • οἶσθα ὅπωσ θαρραλέοσ ἀεὶ καὶ μεγαληγόροσ ἐν ταῖσ ἐκκλησίαισ ἦν. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 14:6)
  • καὶ ἡ μὲν γνώμη κοινωνείτω καὶ προσαπτέσθω τι καὶ ποιητικῆσ, παῤ ὅσον μεγαληγόροσ καὶ διηρμένη καὶ ἐκείνη, καὶ μάλισθ̓ ὁπόταν παρατάξεσι καὶ μάχαισ καὶ ναυμαχίαισ συμπλέκηται· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 451)

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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