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πονήρευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πονήρευμα πονήρευματος

Structure: πονηρευματ (Stem)

Etym.: from ponhreu/omai

Sense

  1. a knavish trick

Declension

Third 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

  • εἰ δὲ μὴ τῇ κακίᾳ τῆσ φύσεωσ αὐτῶν καὶ τοῖσ πονηρεύμασιν ἀσθένειαν καὶ ἀνανδρείαν ὁ θεὸσ προσῆψεν, ἅπαντ’ ἂν ἀοίκηθ’ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν ἦν, ὥσπερ Ἡρόδοτοσ περὶ τῶν ὄφεων ἔφη. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 197:15)

Synonyms

  1. a knavish trick

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

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