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σόλοικος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σόλοικος σόλοικον

Structure: σολοικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Said to come from the corruption of the Attic dialect by the Athenian colonists of So/loi in Cilicia.

Sense

  1. speaking incorrectly, using provincialisms
  2. erring against good manners, awkward, clumsy

Examples

  • οὐχ ὥσπερ ἔνιοι τῶν ἀπειροκάλων καὶ σολοίκων, οἱο͂ν ἰσχύοσ ἑαυτῶν καλλωπιζόμενοι περιουσίᾳ, βραβευτὰσ ἐν ἀγῶσι προπηλακίζουσι καὶ χορηγοὺσ ἐν Διονυσίοισ λοιδοροῦσι καὶ στρατηγῶν καὶ γυμνασιάρχων καταγελῶσιν, οὐκ εἰδότεσ οὐδὲ μανθάνοντεσ ὅτι τοῦ τιμᾶσθαι τὸ τιμᾶν πολλάκισ ἐστὶν ἐνδοξότερον. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 21 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. erring against good manners

Related

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

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