Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

παροιμιακός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παροιμιακός παροιμιακή παροιμιακόν

Structure: παροιμιακ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. proverbial
  2. a paroemiac

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

  • κόμματόσ τινοσ ἀναμιμνήσκομαι παροιμιακοῦ μένε, καρκίνε, καί σε μεθήσω· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 27 9:2)
  • μήποτε δουλεύσασα γυνὴ δέσποινα γένοιτο, ἐστὶ παροιμιακόν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 481)
  • "ὦ Φίρμε, τὸν κόσμον ἀντὶ τῆσ παροιμιακῆσ θύρασ ἐπὶ σεαυτὸν ἀνοίξασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 17:1)
  • ] ἐφ’ οὗ καὶ τὸ Αὐτὸσ ἔφα παροιμιακὸν εἰσ τὸν βίον ἦλθεν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. a'. PUQAGORAS 46:9)

Related

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

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