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πέρπερος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: perperos

Principal Part: πέρπερος πέρπερον

Structure: περπερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. vainglorious, braggart

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

  • ἄνθρωπον παριόντα ταπεινόν, μεμψίμοιρον, ὀξύθυμον, δειλόν, πάντα μεμφόμενον, πᾶσιν ἐγκαλοῦντα, μηδέποτε ἡσυχίαν ἄγοντα, πέρπερον: (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 14:3)
  • οἰκίας μὲν γὰρ ἦν καὶ γένους πρώτου, κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἰδίαν φύσιν στωμύλος καὶ λάλος καὶ πέρπερος διαφερόντως. (Polybius, Histories, book 39, a. olymp. 158, 3. i. res graeciae 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. vainglorious

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

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