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

  • φασὶ παροιμιακῶσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3791)
  • τό τε παροιμιακῶσ λεχθὲν οὕτω δεῖ δέξασθαι εἰσ Φᾶσιν ἔνθα ναυσὶν ἔσχατοσ δρόμοσ, οὐχ ὡσ τὸν ποταμὸν λέγοντοσ τοῦ ποιήσαντοσ τὸ ἰαμβεῖον, οὐδὲ δὴ ὡσ τὴν ὁμώνυμον αὐτῷ πόλιν κειμένην ἐπὶ τῷ ποταμῷ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ τὴν Κολχίδα ἀπὸ μέρουσ, ἐπεὶ ἀπό γε τοῦ ποταμοῦ καὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ οὐκ ἐλάττων ἑξακοσίων σταδίων λείπεται πλοῦσ ἐπ’ εὐθείασ εἰσ τὸν μυχόν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 2 24:2)

Related

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

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