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

  • "’ τέτραξ τὸ μέγεθοσ ἴσοσ σπερμολόγῳ, τὸ χρῶμα κεραμεοῦσ, ῥυπαραῖσ στιγμαῖσ καὶ μεγάλαισ γραμμαῖσ ποικίλοσ, καρποφάγοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 58 1:6)

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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