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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

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

  • ὅταν δὲ πλεονεκτῇ, πολλάκισ κατ’ οὐδεμίαν τῶν τοιούτων, ἀλλὰ μὴν οὐδὲ κατὰ πάσασ, κατὰ πονηρίαν δέ γε τινά ψέγομεν γάρ καὶ κατ’ ἀδικίαν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 21:3)

Synonyms

  1. making gain

Related

Similar forms

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

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