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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative μοχθηρός μοχθηρᾱ́ μοχθηρόν
Genitive μοχθηροῦ μοχθηρᾶς μοχθηροῦ
Dative μοχθηρῷ μοχθηρᾷ μοχθηρῷ
Accusative μοχθηρόν μοχθηρᾱ́ν μοχθηρόν
Vocative μοχθηρέ μοχθηρᾱ́ μοχθηρόν
DualN/A/V μοχθηρώ μοχθηρᾱ́ μοχθηρώ
G/D μοχθηροῖν μοχθηραῖν μοχθηροῖν
PluralNominative μοχθηροί μοχθηραί μοχθηρά
Genitive μοχθηρῶν μοχθηρῶν μοχθηρῶν
Dative μοχθηροῖς μοχθηραῖς μοχθηροῖς
Accusative μοχθηρούς μοχθηρᾱ́ς μοχθηρά
Vocative μοχθηροί μοχθηραί μοχθηρά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective μοχθηρός μοχθηροῦ μοχθηρότερος μοχθηροτεροῦ μοχθηρότατος μοχθηροτατοῦ
Adverb μοχθηρώς μοχθηρότερον μοχθηρότατα

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

  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ ὅ τε σπουδαῖοσ καὶ ὁ τοῦ μηδενὸσ ἄξιοσ ὁμοίωσ καλεῖται λόγοσ, οὐκ ἂν ἁμαρτάνοι τισ τὰ μὲν ἐοικότα τῷ καλῷ λόγῳ ποιήματα καλὰ ἡγούμενοσ, τὰ δὲ τῷ μοχθηρῷ πονηρὰ οὐδὲν ὑπὸ τῆσ τοῦ λόγου ὁμοειδείασ ταραττόμενοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2612)
  • τῷ δὲ φευκτὸν ἢ οὐ σπουδαστὸν τὸ ἐπαρκεῖν, μοχθηρῷ ὄντι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 8 160:1)
  • τῷ μοχθηρῷ μὲν οὖν διαφωνεῖ ἃ δεῖ πράττειν καὶ ἃ πράττει· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 98:1)
  • οὐκοῦν τὸ μέγιστον αὐτῷ κακὸν ὑπάρξει μοχθηρῷ ὄντι τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ λελωβημένῳ διὰ τὴν μίμησιν τοῦ δεσπότου καὶ δύναμιν. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 390:1)
  • εἰ δέ τισ ἄρα ἐν τῷ τοῦ σώματοσ τιμιωτέρῳ, τῇ ψυχῇ, πολλὰ νοσήματα ἔχει καὶ ἀνίατα, τούτῳ δὲ βιωτέον ἐστὶν καὶ τοῦτον ὀνήσει, ἄντε ἐκ θαλάττησ ἄντε ἐκ δικαστηρίου ἐάντε ἄλλοθεν ὁποθενοῦν σώσῃ, ἀλλ’ οἶδεν ὅτι οὐκ ἄμεινόν ἐστιν ζῆν τῷ μοχθηρῷ ἀνθρώπῳ· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 396:1)

Synonyms

  1. suffering hardship

Related

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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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