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πλεονέκτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλεονέκτης πλεονέκτου

Structure: πλεονεκτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: = o( ple/on e)/xwn

Sense

  1. one who has or claims more than his due, greedy, grasping, arrogant
  2. making gain

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πλεονέκτης πλεονέκτᾱ πλεονέκται
Genitive πλεονέκτου πλεονέκταιν πλεονεκτῶν
Dative πλεονέκτῃ πλεονέκταιν πλεονέκταις
Accusative πλεονέκτην πλεονέκτᾱ πλεονέκτᾱς
Vocative πλεονέκτα πλεονέκτᾱ πλεονέκται

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

  • οἱ δὴ περὶ ταῦτα πλεονέκται χαρίζονται ταῖσ ἐπιθυμίαισ καὶ ὅλωσ τοῖσ πάθεσι καὶ τῷ ἀλόγῳ τῆσ ψυχῆσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 89:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ οὐχ ὥσπερ οἱ πλεονέκται τῶν ἄλλων ἀφαιρούμενοι χρήματα ἑαυτοὺσ δοκοῦσι πλουτίζειν, οὕτωσ ὁ ἀκρατὴσ τοῖσ μὲν ἄλλοισ βλαβερόσ, ἑαυτῷ δ’ ὠφέλιμοσ, ἀλλὰ κακοῦργοσ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων, ἑαυτοῦ δὲ πολὺ κακουργότεροσ, εἴ γε κακουργότατόν ἐστι μὴ μόνον τὸν οἶκον τὸν ἑαυτοῦ φθείρειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ τὴν ψυχήν· (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 5 4:2)
  • πῶσ γὰρ ἂν ἢ ἀχάριστοι ἢ ἀμελεῖσ ἢ πλεονέκται ἢ ἄπιστοι ἢ ἀκρατεῖσ ἄνθρωποι δύναιντο φίλοι γενέσθαι; (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 6 20:3)
  • ὦ πλεονέκται, οἱ πλούτου, πενίην ὡσ ἀδικεῖτε νόμοι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 30 1:2)
  • οὔτε κλέπται οὔτε πλεονέκται, οὐ μέθυσοι, οὐ λοίδοροι, οὐχ ἁρ́παγεσ βασιλείαν θεοῦ κληρονομήσουσιν. (PROS KORINQIOUS A, chapter 6 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. making gain

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

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