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νεώτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεώτερος νεώτερᾱ νεώτερον

Structure: νεωτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: comp. of ne/os

Sense

  1. younger, the younger sort, men of military age
  2. too young, too young to remember
  3. newer, later, later, worse
  4. an innovation, revolutionary movement

Examples

  • εἶπε δὲ ἡ πρεσβυτέρα πρὸσ τὴν νεωτέραν. ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν πρεσβύτεροσ, καὶ οὐδείσ ἐστιν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ, ὃσ εἰσελεύσεται πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ, ὡσ καθήκει πάσῃ τῇ γῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:31)
  • ἐγένετο δὲ ἐν τῇ ἐπαύριον καὶ εἶπεν ἡ πρεσβυτέρα πρὸσ τὴν νεωτέραν. ἰδοὺ ἐκοιμήθην χθὲσ μετὰ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἡμῶν. ποτίσωμεν αὐτὸν οἶνον καὶ ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ ταύτῃ, καὶ εἰσελθοῦσα κοιμήθητι μετ̓ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξαναστήσωμεν ἐκ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἡμῶν σπέρμα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:34)
  • ἀπεκρίθη δὲ Λάβαν. οὐκ ἔστιν οὕτωσ ἐν τῷ τόπῳ ἡμῶν, δοῦναι τὴν νεωτέραν πρὶν ἢ τὴν πρεσβυτέραν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 29:26)
  • διοικήσασ δὲ ταῦτα πάντα ὁ Ἀμύντασ αὐτὸσ πάλιν ἀποδίδοται τἀνδράποδα πέντε καὶ τριάκοντα μνῶν Τιμοχάρει Ἀχαρνεῖ τῷ τὴν νεωτέραν ἔχοντι τούτου ἀδελφήν· (Lycurgus, Speeches, 32:1)
  • "οὐχ ὡσ νῦν ὑστέραν ἐπιχειροῦμεν λέγειν οὕτωσ ἐμηχανήσατο καὶ ὁ θεὸσ νεωτέραν οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἄρχεσθαι πρεσβύτερον ὑπὸ νεωτέρου συνέρξασ εἰάσεν· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 8 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. an innovation

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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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