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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

  • καὶ γὰρ παρασκευαστικὸν τῶν εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον τὸν στρατηγὸν εἶναι χρή, καὶ ποριστικὸν τῶν ἐπιτηδείων τοῖσ στρατιώταισ, καὶ μηχανικὸν καὶ ἐργαστικὸν καὶ ἐπιμελῆ καὶ καρτερικὸν καὶ ἀγχίνουν, καὶ φιλόφρονά τε καὶ ὠμόν, καὶ ἁπλοῦν τε καὶ ἐπίβουλον, καὶ φυλακτικόν τε καὶ κλέπτην, καὶ προετικὸν καὶ ἁρ́παγα καὶ φιλόδωρον καὶ πλεονέκτην καὶ ἀσφαλῆ καὶ ἐπιθετικόν, καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ καὶ φύσει καὶ ἐπιστήμῃ δεῖ τὸν εὖ στρατηγήσοντα ἔχειν. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 7:2)
  • καὶ τὸν πλεονέκτην οὐδεὶσ ἐλεεῖ δήπουθεν οὐδὲ ἀξιοῖ διδάσκειν, προβάλλονται δὲ ἅπαντεσ καὶ πολέμιον αὑτῶν νομίζουσιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 11:1)
  • ἀλλ’ εὖ ἴσθι ὅτι δεῖ τὸν μέλλοντα τοῦτο ποιήσειν καὶ ἐπίβουλον εἶναι καὶ κρυψίνουν καὶ δολερὸν καὶ ἀπατεῶνα καὶ κλέπτην καὶ ἁρ́παγα καὶ ἐν παντὶ πλεονέκτην τῶν πολεμίων. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 33:3)
  • "ἄνδρεσ Ἕλληνεσ, λόγον ἔχοντεσ πλεονέκτην ἐτολμήσατε ἐμὲ σύμμαχον ἐπὶ τὸν βάρβαρον παρακαλέοντεσ ἐλθεῖν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 158 2:2)

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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