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νωθρός?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: nōthros

Principal Part: νωθρός νωθρή νωθρόν

Structure: νωθρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = νωθής

Sense

  1. sluggish, slothful, torpid

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

  • καὶ περὶ τοῦ Χάρητος ἐν τῇ πέμπτῃ καὶ τεσσαρακοστῇ φησιν Χάρητός τε νωθροῦ τε ὄντος καὶ βραδέος, καίτοι γε καὶ πρὸς τρυφὴν ἤδη ζῶντος: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:190)
  • φάναι γάρ, τοῦ μὲν Θεοφράστου καθ ὑπερβολὴν ὀξύτητος πᾶν τὸ νοηθὲν ἐξερμηνεύοντος, τοῦ δὲ νωθροῦ τὴν φύσιν ὑπάρχοντος, ὡς τῷ μὲν χαλινοῦ δέοι, τῷ δὲ κέντρου. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. b'. QEOFRASTOS 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. sluggish

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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