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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

  • πρὸσ μέν γε τὸ φανῆναί τινασ ὄντασ καὶ μὴ μόνον ἑαυτοῖσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ βοηθῆσαι, καὶ νὴ Δία ὥστε τοὺσ αὖθισ ὀκνηρότερον ἐξαμαρτάνειν, συνήνεγκε τὸ δίκην ἐκείνουσ ὑποσχεῖν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 12:2)
  • ἐπιθυμῶν δὲ σφόδρα ἐξιέναι ἐπὶ τὴν θήραν οὐκέτι ὁμοίωσ λιπαρεῖν ἐδύνατο ὥσπερ παῖσ ὤν, ἀλλ’ ὀκνηρότερον προσῄει. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 4 9:1)

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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