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μοχθηρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μοχθηρός μοχθηρή μοχθηρόν

Structure: μοχθηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: voc. mo/xqhre, not moxqhre/

Sense

  1. suffering hardship, in sore distress, miserable, wretched, hardships
  2. in a bad state, in sorry plight, worthless, a, plight
  3. wicked, knavish, rascally

Examples

  • οἴμοι τουτὶ τὸ ῥῶ μοχθηρόν· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode, lyric3)
  • φασὶν αἰτεῖσθαί τιν’ ἡμῶν ἑκατὸν ἐσ Καρχηδόνα ἄνδρα μοχθηρὸν πολίτην ὀξίνην Ὑπέρβολον· (Aristotle, Parabasis, antepirrheme3)
  • ἡ δὲ συνδιαστρέφουσα τὴν ψυχὴν παράβλεψισ αὕτη καὶ παρατόξευσισ αἰσχρὰ καὶ τὸ ἔθοσ μοχθηρόν. (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 125)
  • ἡ δὲ συνδιαστρέφουσα τὴν ψυχὴν παράβλεψισ αὕτη καὶ παρατόξευσισ αἰσχρὰ καὶ τὸ ἔθοσ μοχθηρόν· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 12 1:4)
  • ἐκ ταύτησ τῆσ μάχησ οὐ μόνον ὑπῆρξεν αὐτοῖσ ἄγειν καὶ φέρειν ἀδεῶσ τὴν βασιλέωσ χώραν, ἀλλὰ καὶ δίκην ἐπιδεῖν Τισαφέρνην διδόντα, μοχθηρὸν ἄνδρα καὶ τῷ γένει τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἀπεχθέστατον. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 10 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. suffering hardship

Related

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

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