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μικρολόγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μικρολόγος

Structure: μικρολογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. reckoning trifles;
  2. caring about petty expenses, penurious
  3. cavilling about trifles, captious

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative μικρολόγος μικρολόγη μικρόλογον
Genitive μικρολόγου μικρολόγης μικρολόγου
Dative μικρολόγῳ μικρολόγῃ μικρολόγῳ
Accusative μικρολόγον μικρολόγην μικρόλογον
Vocative μικρολόγε μικρολόγη μικρόλογον
DualN/A/V μικρολόγω μικρολόγᾱ μικρολόγω
G/D μικρολόγοιν μικρολόγαιν μικρολόγοιν
PluralNominative μικρολόγοι μικρολόγαι μικρόλογα
Genitive μικρολόγων μικρολογῶν μικρολόγων
Dative μικρολόγοις μικρολόγαις μικρολόγοις
Accusative μικρολόγους μικρολόγᾱς μικρόλογα
Vocative μικρολόγοι μικρολόγαι μικρόλογα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective μικρολόγος μικρολόγου μικρολογώτερος μικρολογωτέρου μικρολογώτατος μικρολογωτάτου
Adverb μικρολόγως μικρολογώτερον μικρολογώτατα

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

  • ἦθόσ τε κολακικὸν καὶ φιλοτύραννον ἐμφαίνει καὶ ταπεινὸν καὶ μικρολόγον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 5 2:2)
  • τοῦ δὲ πράγματοσ ὁρ́ον οὐκ ἔχοντοσ, ἀλλὰ πόρρω νεμομένου καὶ προϊόντοσ ἐπὶ πολλούσ, αὐτὸσ μὲν ἠδόξει, φθόνον δὲ καὶ μῖσοσ εἶχεν Οὐίνιοσ, ὡσ τοῖσ μὲν ἄλλοισ ἅπασιν ἀνελεύθερον παρέχων τὸν ἡγεμόνα καὶ μικρολόγον, αὐτὸσ δὲ χρώμενοσ ἀσώτωσ καὶ λαμβάνων πάντα καὶ πιπράσκων. (Plutarch, Galba, chapter 16 3:1)
  • φιλικὸν γὰρ ἡ παρρησία καὶ σεμνόν, ἡ δὲ μέμψισ καὶ φίλαυτον καὶ μικρολόγον. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 26 1:1)
  • καὶ ἐπελθὼν αὖθισ ἐπὶ τὸν στρατὸν ἔφη χαλεπῆναι μὲν τῶν γεγονότων ὑπὸ ἀνάγκησ στρατιωτικῆσ ὀλίγοισ ἀντὶ πλεόνων ὧν ἐκόλαζεν ὁ νόμοσ, αὐτοὺσ δὲ εἰδέναι σαφῶσ οὔτε ὠμὸν οὔτε μικρολόγον Ἀντώνιον. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 7 2:5)
  • πρὸσ τὸν μικρολόγον πλούσιον, "οὐχ οὗτοσ," ἔφη, "τὴν οὐσίαν κέκτηται, ἀλλ’ ἡ οὐσία τοῦτον. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef. z'. BIWN 5:6)

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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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