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πενιχρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πενιχρός πενιχρή πενιχρόν

Structure: πενιχρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: like pe/nhs

Sense

  1. poor, needy

Examples

  • ἦν μοί τι μειράκιον φίλον, πενιχρὸν μέν, ἄλλωσ δ’ εὐπρόσωπον καὶ καλὸν καὶ χρηστόν· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode17)
  • Πᾶσ τισ πλούσιον ἄνδρα τίει, ἀτίει δὲ πενιχρόν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389347)
  • "τὸ γὰρ λυπρόγαιον," ἔφη, "καὶ πενιχρὸν ὑμᾶσ ἐσ ταῦτα ἀναγκάζει· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 10 3:6)

Synonyms

  1. poor

Related

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

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