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μωρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μωρός

Structure: μωρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. slow, sluggish
  2. slow, dull, foolish, stupid
  3. insipid, flavorless, flat

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • ὁ σοφὸσ ἐν λόγῳ ἑαυτὸν προσφιλῆ ποιήσει, χάριτεσ δὲ μωρῶν ἐκχυθήσονται. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 20:12)
  • ἐν στόματι μωρῶν ἡ καρδία αὐτῶν, καρδία δὲ σοφῶν στόμα αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 21:26)
  • διήγησισ μωρῶν προσόχθισμα, καὶ ὁ γέλωσ αὐτῶν ἐν σπατάλῃ ἁμαρτίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 27:13)
  • "διὰ τί τὰ Κυρινάλια μωρῶν ἑορτὴν ὀνομάζουσιν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 891)
  • δοῦλοι γάρ εἰσι καὶ οὗτοι, ἔφη ὁ Σωκράτησ, καὶ πάνυ γε χαλεπῶν δεσποτῶν, οἱ μὲν λιχνειῶν, οἱ δὲ λαγνειῶν, οἱ δὲ οἰνοφλυγιῶν, οἱ δὲ φιλοτιμιῶν τινων μώρων καὶ δαπανηρῶν, ἃ οὕτω χαλεπῶσ ἄρχει τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὧν ἂν ἐπικρατήσωσιν, ὥσθ’ ἑώσ μὲν ἂν ὁρῶσιν ἡβῶντασ αὐτοὺσ καὶ δυναμένουσ ἐργάζεσθαι, ἀναγκάζουσι φέρειν ἃ ἂν αὐτοὶ ἐργάσωνται καὶ τελεῖν εἰσ τὰσ αὑτῶν ἐπιθυμίασ, ἐπειδὰν δὲ αὐτοὺσ ἀδυνάτουσ αἴσθωνται ὄντασ ἐργάζεσθαι διὰ τὸ γῆρασ, ἀπολείπουσι τούτουσ κακῶσ γηράσκειν, ἄλλοισ δ’ αὖ πειρῶνται δούλοισ χρῆσθαι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 1 23:1)

Synonyms

  1. slow

  2. slow

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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