Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

μωμητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μωμητός μωμητή μωμητόν

Structure: μωμητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: mwma/omai

Sense

  1. to be blamed

Examples

  • ἡμάρτοσαν οὐκ αὐτῷ τέκνα μωμητά, γενεὰ σκολιὰ καὶ διεστραμμένη. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 32:5)
  • Ὑπέρβιοσ δέ, κεδνὸσ Οἴνοποσ τόκοσ, ἀνὴρ κατ’ ἄνδρα τοῦτον ᾑρέθη, θέλων ἐξιστορῆσαι μοῖραν ἐν χρείᾳ τύχησ, οὔτ’ εἶδοσ οὔτε θυμὸν οὐδ’ ὅπλων σχέσιν μωμητόσ, Ἑρμῆσ δ’ εὐλόγωσ ξυνήγαγεν. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 2 1:10)

Synonyms

  1. to be blamed

Derived

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

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