Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

χαλίφρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλίφρων χαλίφρονος

Structure: χαλιφρων (Stem)

Etym.: xa/lis

Sense

  1. light-minded, thoughtless

Declension

Third declension

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

  • "νήπιόσ εἰσ, ὦ ξεῖνε, λίην τόσον ἠδὲ χαλίφρων, ἠε͂ ἑκὼν μεθίεισ καὶ τέρπεαι ἄλγεα πάσχων; (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 39:1)
  • παῖσ δ’ ἐμὸσ ἡο͂σ ἐήν ἔτι νήπιοσ ἠδὲ χαλίφρων, γήμασθ’ οὔ μ’ εἰά πόσιοσ κατὰ δῶμα λιποῦσαν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 55:8)

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

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