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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

  • 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)

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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