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πτωχικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πτωχικός πτωχική πτωχικόν

Structure: πτωχικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ptwxo/s

Sense

  1. of or fit for a beggar, beggarly

Examples

  • "τὴν ἀφύην, φησί, ἐν Ἀθήναισ μὲν διὰ τὴν δαψίλειαν ὑπερορῶσι καὶ πτωχικὸν εἶναί φασιν ὄψον, ἐν ἑτέραισ δὲ πόλεσιν ὑπερθαυμάζουσι πολὺ χείρω γινομένην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 23 1:1)
  • "τί τὸ πτωχικὸν κρέασ παρ’ Αἰνιᾶσι; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 131)

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

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