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πένης

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πένης πένητος

Structure: πενητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pe/nomai

Sense

  1. one who works for his daily bread, a day-labourer, a poor man, (beggar)
  2. of a poor man, poor in

Declension

Third 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

  • τῶν σοφῶν γὰρ οὐ πένῃ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode26)

Synonyms

  1. one who works for his daily bread

    • χερνής (one who lives by his hands, a day-labourer, a poor man)
  2. of a poor man

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

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