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ὀκνηρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀκνηρός ὀκνηρή ὀκνηρόν

Structure: ὀκνηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)/knos

Sense

  1. shrinking, hesitating, backward, unready, timid
  2. causing fear, vexatious, troublesome

Examples

  • ἐπιθυμίαι ὀκνηρὸν ἀποκτείνουσιν, οὐ γὰρ προαιροῦνται αἱ χεῖρεσ αὐτοῦ ποιεῖν τι. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 21:24)
  • ἐμὲ γὰρ δέοσ ἴσχει ὀκνηρόν· (Theocritus, Idylls, 17)
  • ἰταμὸν γὰρ ἡ πονηρία καὶ τολμηρὸν καὶ πλεονεκτικόν, καὶ τοὐναντίον ἡ καλοκαγαθία ἡσύχιον καὶ ὀκνηρὸν καὶ βραδὺ καὶ δεινὸν ἐλαττωθῆναι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 29:2)
  • τὰ αὐτὰ γράφειν ὑμῖν ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐκ ὀκνηρόν, ὑμῖν δὲ ἀσφαλέσ. (PROS FILIPPHSIOUS, chapter 2 36:2)

Synonyms

  1. causing fear

Related

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

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