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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

  • ὁ δὲ τῇ διαβολῇ κατὰ τῶν ἀπόντων λάθρᾳ χρώμενοσ πῶσ οὐ πλεονέκτησ ἐστὶν ὅλον τὸν ἀκροατὴν σφετεριζόμενοσ καὶ προκαταλαμβάνων αὐτοῦ τὰ ὦτα καὶ ἀποφράττων καὶ τῷ δευτέρῳ λόγῳ παντελῶσ ἄβατα κατασκευάζων αὐτὰ ὑπὸ τῆσ διαβολῆσ προεμπεπλησμένα; (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 8:3)
  • ὃ δὲ πάντων μέγιστόν ἐστιν, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, ᾧ καὶ γνώσεσθε τουτονὶ ὅτι ἄδικόσ ἐστιν καὶ πλεονέκτησ ἄνθρωποσ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 54:1)
  • δοκεῖ δὴ ὅ τε παράνομοσ ἄδικοσ εἶναι καὶ ὁ πλεονέκτησ καὶ ἄνισοσ, ὥστε δῆλον ὅτι καὶ ὁ δίκαιοσ ἔσται ὅ τε νόμιμοσ καὶ ὁ ἴσοσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 8:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πλεονέκτησ ὁ ἄδικοσ, περὶ τἀγαθὰ ἔσται, οὐ πάντα, ἀλλὰ περὶ ὅσα εὐτυχία καὶ ἀτυχία, ἃ ἐστὶ μὲν ἁπλῶσ ἀεὶ ἀγαθά, τινὶ δ’ οὐκ ἀεί. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 10:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτι δοκεῖ καὶ τὸ μεῖον κακὸν ἀγαθόν πωσ εἶναι, τοῦ δ’ ἀγαθοῦ ἐστὶν ἡ πλεονεξία, διὰ τοῦτο δοκεῖ πλεονέκτησ εἶναι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 11:3)

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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