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νεόπλουτος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: neoploutos

Principal Part: νεόπλουτος νεόπλουτον

Structure: νεοπλουτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. newly become rich, upstart, nouveau riche)

Examples

  • διαφέρει δὲ τοῖς νεωστὶ κεκτημένοις καὶ τοῖς πάλαι τὰ ἤθη τῷ ἅπαντα μᾶλλον καὶ φαυλότερα τὰ κακὰ ἔχειν τοὺς νεοπλούτους ὥσπερ γὰρ ἀπαιδευσία πλούτου ἐστὶ τὸ νεόπλουτον εἶναι, καὶ ἀδικήματα ἀδικοῦσιν οὐ κακουργικά, ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν ὑβριστικὰ τὰ δὲ ἀκρατευτικά, οἱο῀ν εἰς αἰκίαν καὶ μοιχείαν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 16 4:1)

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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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