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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

  • πλεονέκτου ὀφθαλμὸσ οὐκ ἐμπίπλαται μερίδι, καὶ ἀδικία πονηρὰ ἀναξηραίνει ψυχήν. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 14:9)
  • οὐκ ἦν ἄρ’, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, χαλεπώτερον οὐδὲν ἢ γείτονοσ πονηροῦ καὶ πλεονέκτου τυχεῖν, ὅπερ ἐμοὶ νυνὶ συμβέβηκεν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 2:1)
  • ὁ δὲ θεὸσ ταύτῃ μᾶλλον ἥδεται τῇ θυσίᾳ τοῖσ αὐτομάτοισ καὶ κατὰ φύσιν γεγονόσι τιμώμενοσ, ἀλλ’ οὐχὶ τοῖσ κατ’ ἐπίνοιαν ἀνθρώπου πλεονέκτου βίᾳ πεφυκόσιν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 66:2)

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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