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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

  • 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, οἱο͂ν εἰσ αἰκίαν καὶ μοιχείαν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 16 4:1)

Related

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

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