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νεόπλουτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεόπλουτος νεόπλουτον

Structure: νεοπλουτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. newly become rich, upstart, nouveau riche)

Examples

  • Νεόπλουτα δ’ ἦν τοῦ Λουκούλλου τὰ δεῖπνα τὰ καθ’ ἡμέραν, οὐ μόνον στρωμναῖσ ἁλουργέσι καὶ διαλίθοισ ἐκπώμασι καὶ χοροῖσ καὶ ἀκροάμασιν ἐπεισοδίοισ, ἀλλ’ ὄψων τε παντοδαπῶν καὶ πεμμάτων περιττῶσ διαπεπονημένων παρασκευαῖσ ζηλωτὸν ἀνελευθέροισ ποιοῦντοσ ἑαυτόν. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 40 1:1)

Related

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

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