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περίφρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίφρων περίφρονος

Structure: περιφρων (Stem)

Etym.: frh/n

Sense

  1. very thoughtful, very careful, notable
  2. haughty, over-weening
  3. despising

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

  • παρὰ δέ σφισιν ὄρχοσ χρύσεοσ ἦν, κλυτὰ ἔργα περίφρονοσ Ἡφαίστοιο, σειόμενοσ φύλλοισι καὶ ἀργυρέῃσι κάμαξι, βριθόμενοσ σταφυλῇσι· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 26:10)
  • τοῖσιν δὲ προέκειτο μέγασ τρίποσ ἐντὸσ ἀγῶνοσ, χρύσειοσ, κλυτὰ ἔργα περίφρονοσ Ἡφαίστοιο. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 27:4)
  • ἁ δὲ Βίαντοσ ἐν ἀγκοίναισιν ἐκλίνθη, μάτηρ ἁ χαρίεσσα περίφρονοσ Ἀλφεσιβοίησ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 33)
  • εἰσ τὴν πόλιν τῶν Μύρων τῆσ Λυκίασ Καλλιχόρου τόδε τεῖχοσ ἀνηέξησε πόληοσ Μαρκιανὸσ σκηπτοῦχοσ, ὑπ’ ἐννεσίῃσιν ὑπάρχου Παλλαδίου, θεσμοῖσ τε περίφρονοσ Ἀρτεμεῶνοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 15, chapter 21)
  • ἤ σέ γε Κύπριδοσ υἱᾶ περίφρονοσ, ἠέ σε Γαίησ, ἢ Ἀνέμων· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef. e'. KRANTWR 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. despising

Related

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

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