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μεγαλόσπλαγχνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεγαλόσπλαγχνος μεγαλόσπλαγχνον

Structure: μεγαλοσπλαγχν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: spla/gxnon

Sense

  1. with large heart: high-spirited

Declension

First/Second 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

  • Ὁ μὲν γλυκὺσ ἧσσόν ἐστι καρηβαρικὸσ τοῦ οἰνώδεοσ, καὶ ἧσσον φρενῶν ἁπτόμενοσ, καὶ διαχωρητικώτεροσ δή τι τοῦ ἑτέρου κατ’ ἔντερον, μεγαλόσπλαγχνοσ δὲ σπληνὸσ καὶ ἥπατοσ‧ οὐκ ἐπιτήδειοσ δὲ οὐδὲ τοῖσι πικροχόλοισι‧ καὶ γὰρ οὖν διψώδησ τοῖσί γε τοιουτέοισίν ἐστιν‧ ἀτὰρ καὶ φυσώδησ τοῦ ἐντέρου τοῦ ἄνω‧ οὐ μὴν πολέμιόσ γε τῷ ἐντέρῳ τῷ κάτω, ὡσ κατὰ λόγον τῆσ φύσησ‧ καίτοι γε οὐ πάνυ πορίμη ἐστὶν ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ γλυκέοσ οἴνου φῦσα, ἀλλ’ ἐγχρονίζει περὶ ὑποχόνδρια. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.2)

Synonyms

  1. with large heart

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

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