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νωθής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νωθής νωθές

Structure: νωθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. sluggish, slothful, torpid
  2. dull, stupid, somewhat dull

Declension

Third 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

  • "ἢ διότι μὴ τοιουτοσὶ γέρων ἐγενόμην οἱο͂σ εἶ σύ, φαλακρὸσ μὲν τὴν κεφαλήν, τὴν δ’ ὄψιν ἐρρυτιδωμένοσ, κυφὸσ καὶ τὰ γόνατα νωθήσ, καὶ ὅλωσ ὑπὸ τοῦ χρόνου σαθρὸσ πολλὰσ τριακάδασ καὶ ὀλυμπιάδασ ἀναπλήσασ, καὶ τὰ τελευταῖα δὴ ταῦτα παραπαίων ἐπὶ τοσούτων μαρτύρων ; (Lucian, (no name) 16:6)
  • ‐ φυγῇ φυγῇ νωθὲσ πέδαιρε κῶλον, ἐκποδὼν ἔλα. (Euripides, Heracles, episode3)
  • βραδὺσ γὰρ καὶ νωθήσ τισ εἶναι δοκεῖσ. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 26:24)
  • αὐτὸσ μὲν οὖν οὐκ ᾔσθετο τὴν ἔφοδον, εἴτε φύσει νωθὴσ ὢν, εἴτε μεθ’ ἡμέραν κατάκοποσ γεγονώσ. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 8 1:2)
  • καὶ τήνδε νῦν πόρπασον ἀσφαλῶσ, ἵνα μάθῃ σοφιστὴσ ὢν Διὸσ νωθέστεροσ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 5:1)
  • κεῖτο δ’ ἐπὶ ψαμάθοισι μεσημβρινὸν ἦμαρ ἀλύσκων δεινὸσ ὄφισ, νωθὴσ μὲν ἑκὼν ἀέκοντα χαλέψαι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 24:14)
  • εὖτε πόνοσ μὲν οὐ ξυνεχὴσ, νωθὴσ δὲ κἢν παρῇ· ἀραιὴ δὲ καὶ θέρμη· ἀποσιτίη, πικρῶν γευμάτων ἡδονὴ, γλυκέων ἀηδίη, Ῥιγώδεεσ, ὑπόλευκοι, χλωροὶ, οἰδαλέοι ὀσφὺν καὶ πόδασ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 265)

Synonyms

  1. sluggish

  2. dull

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

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