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πάρεργον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πάρεργον πάρεργου

Structure: παρεργ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a bye-work, subordinate or secondary business, appendage, appendix, a secondary purpose, an unhappy addition to, things useless to remedy, as a bye-work, as subordinate or secondary, as a bye-work

Declension

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

  • οὔτοι ἔτι ταῦτα, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, σπουδάζομεν, ἀλλὰ παρέργοισ αὐτοῖσ χρώμεθα. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 18:3)

Related

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

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