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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

  • ἔπεμψε δὲ τὸν μυσάρχην Ἀπολλώνιον μετὰ στρατεύματοσ δισμυρίων πρὸσ τοῖσ δισχιλίοισ, προστάξασ τοὺσ ἐν ἡλικίᾳ πάντασ κατασφάξαι, τὰσ δὲ γυναῖκασ καὶ νεωτέρουσ πωλεῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 5:24)
  • ἀπέβησαν δὲ ὥσπερ ὄνοι ἐν ἀγρῷ ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ ἐξελθόντεσ τὴν ἑαυτῶν τάξιν. ἡδύνθη αὐτῷ ἄρτοσ εἰσ νεωτέρουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 24:5)
  • καὶ οἱ μεγιστᾶνεσ αὐτῆσ ἀπέστειλαν τοὺσ νεωτέρουσ αὐτῶν ἐφ’ ὕδωρ. ἤλθοσαν ἐπὶ τὰ φρέατα καὶ οὐχ εὕροσαν ὕδωρ καὶ ἀπέστρεψαν τὰ ἀγγεῖα αὐτῶν κενά. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 14:3)
  • καὶ μὴν ὅδ’ αὐτὸσ σὸσ πατὴρ βαίνει πέλασ γεραιὸσ Ἶφισ ἐσ νεωτέρουσ λόγουσ, οὓσ οὐ κατειδὼσ πρόσθεν ἀλγήσει κλύων. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, antistrophe 1 1:1)
  • καίτοι ἔδει τοὐναντίον ὑφ’ ὑμῶν παιδεύεσθαι τοὺσ νεωτέρουσ τῶν ῥητόρων, καὶ [εἴ] τι προπετέστερον ἔπραττον ἐπιτιμᾶσθαι καὶ κολάζεσθαι. (Hyperides, Speeches, 5:8)

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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