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σαλάκων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαλάκων σαλάκωνος

Structure: σαλακων (Stem)

Sense

  1. a swaggerer

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σαλάκων σαλάκωνε σαλάκωνες
Genitive σαλάκωνος σαλακώνοιν σαλακώνων
Dative σαλάκωνι σαλακώνοιν σαλάκωσιν*
Accusative σαλάκωνα σαλάκωνε σαλάκωνας
Vocative σαλάκων σαλάκωνε σαλάκωνες

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

  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ ὁ μικροπρεπὴσ καὶ ὁ σαλάκων, ὁ μὲν γὰρ ὑπερβάλλει τὸ πρέπον, ὁ δ’ ἐλλείπει τοῦ πρέποντοσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 61:3)
  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ἔχει τινὰ γειτνίασιν, οὓσ καλοῦσί τινεσ ἀπειροκάλουσ καὶ σαλάκωνασ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 118:1)
  • οἱο͂ν εἰ εἰσ γάμον δαπανῶν τισ τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ, πλούσιοσ ὤν, δοκεῖ πρέπειν ἑαυτῷ τοιαύτην κατασκευὴν οἱο͂ν ἀγαθοδαιμονιστὰσ ἑστιῶντι, οὗτοσ μὲν μικροπρεπήσ, ὁ δὲ τοιούτουσ δεχόμενοσ ἐκείνωσ μὴ δόξησ χάριν μηδὲ δι’ ἐξουσίαν ὅμοιοσ τῷ σαλάκωνι, ὁ δὲ κατ’ ἀξίαν καὶ ὡσ ὁ λόγοσ, μεγαλοπρεπήσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 120:1)
  • ὁ δὲ πλοῦτοσ οἱο͂ν τιμή τισ τῆσ ἀξίασ τῶν ἄλλων, διὸ φαίνεται ὤνια ἅπαντα εἶναι αὐτοῦ, καὶ τρυφεροὶ καὶ σαλάκωνεσ, τρυφεροὶ μὲν διὰ τὴν τροφὴν καὶ τὴν ἔνδειξιν τῆσ εὐδαιμονίασ, σαλάκωνεσ δὲ καὶ σόλοικοι διὰ τὸ πάντασ εἰωθέναι διατρίβειν περὶ τὸ ἐρώμενον καὶ θαυμαζόμενον ὑπ’ αὐτῶν. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 16 1:3)

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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