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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

Examples

  • ἐλογίζετο γάρ, εἰ τῆσ πατρῴασ φιλίασ ἀμνημονέστεροσ ὁ Ἄραψ γένοιτο καὶ τοῦ δοῦναι δωρεὰν μικρολογώτεροσ, δανείσασθαι παρ’ αὐτοῦ τὰ λύτρα ῥύσιον θεὶσ τὸν τοῦ λυτρουμένου παῖδα· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 397:2)

Related

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

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