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παρωνύμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: παρωνύμιος παρωνύμιον

Structure: παρωνυμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a derivative
  2. a surname

Examples

  • λείπεται δὲ παῖσ ὀρφανὸσ γονέων, ὄνομα Δάμων, παρωνύμιον δὲ Περιπόλτασ, πολὺ δή τι καὶ σώματοσ κάλλει καὶ ψυχῆσ φρονήματι τοὺσ καθ’ αὑτὸν ὑπεραίρων νέουσ, ἄλλωσ δ’ ἀπαίδευτοσ καὶ σκληρὸσ τὸ ἦθοσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 1 1:3)
  • ἦσαν δὲ δύο μὲν ἐκ τῆσ γαμετῆσ Ἱππίασ καὶ Ἵππαρχοσ, δύο δ’ ἐκ τῆσ Ἀργείασ Ιὀφῶν καὶ Ἡγησίστρατοσ, ᾧ παρωνύμιον ἦν Θέτταλοσ. (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 17 3:2)
  • ὅθεν Ἐπαμεινώνδασ παρωνύμιον ἔσχεν. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 22 5:7)
  • ὅθεν Ἐπαμεινώνδασ παρωνύμιον ἔσχεν. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 22 17:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ Τιμόθεοσ ὁ αὐλητὴσ πώγωνα μέγαν ἔχων ηὔλει, καὶ ἐν ’ Ἀθήναισ διατηροῦσιν οὐ σφόδρα ἀρχαῖον τὸν πρῶτον περικειράμενον παρωνύμιον ἔχειν Κόρσην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 18 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. a surname

Related

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

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