Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σπερμολόγος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπερμολόγος σπερμολόγον

Structure: σπερμολογ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw

Sense

  1. picking up seeds
  2. one who picks up scraps of knowledge, a babbler

Examples

  • δεξόμεθα τὸν οἰωνόν, ὦ σπερμολόγε ἄνθρωπε, ὅτι καὶ τὰ μὴ αἰτούμενα δίδοτε ἡμῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 19, chapter 5 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. picking up seeds

Related

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

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