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νόθος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νόθος

Structure: νοθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bastard, baseborn (born of a slave or concubine), (of animals) crossbred

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • γέγονε δ’ ἕτεροσ λόγοσ, ὑφ’ οὗ μᾶλλον ἡ συνήθεια παρανενόμηται, τὰσ μὲν γνησίασ ὑφαιροῦντοσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀποσπῶντοσ ἐννοίασ ὥσπερ τέκνα, νόθασ δὲ προσβάλλοντοσ ἑτέρασ θηριώδεισ καὶ ἀλλοκότουσ καὶ ταύτασ ἀντ’ ἐκείνων ἐκτιθηνεῖσθαι καὶ στέργειν ἀναγκάζοντοσ· (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 24 4:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἢν μὲν ᾖ ὑπὸ τὰσ νόθασ ὄγκοσ καὶ ὀδύνη πιεζευμένοισ, τὸ ἧπαρ οἰδέει· ἔμπλεων γὰρ ὑγρασίησ· ἢν δὲ μὴ ὑπὸ τὸ ὀστέον μίμνωσι οἰδέει[], τοῦ ὑμένοσ τὸ σημεῖον · καὶ τοῦ μὲν περιγραφῇ καὶ τὰ ὁρ́ια δῆλα· μετὰ γὰρ τὴν περιαγωγὴν τῶν λοβῶν ἐσ λαγαρὸν τὸ ἐπιγάστριον πιέζουσα χεὶρἱζάνει· περιτοναίου δὲ ἀόριστοσ ἡ σκληρίη καὶ τοῦ πέρατοσ ἡ ἀπόφυσισ ἀφανήσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 246)
  • τούτου λῃσταὶ κερδανεῖν πού τι δοκοῦντεσ ἐσῆλθον ἐσ τὸν τάφον, ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖσ λῃσταῖσ ἐσῄεσαν ἤδη θεασόμενοι τὸν νεκρὸν τὰσ πλευρὰσ οὐκ ἔχοντα διεστώσασ, ἄλλά οἱ συμφυὲσ ἦν ὅσον ἀπ’ ὤμων ἐσ τὰσ ἐλαχίστασ πλευράσ, καλουμένασ δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἰατρῶν νόθασ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 35 9:2)

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