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χαῦνος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαῦνος χαῦνη χαῦνον

Structure: χαυν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xai/nw

Sense

  1. gaping, porous, spongy, loose
  2. unsubstantial, empty, frivolous

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ χαῦνοι ἠλίθιοι καὶ ἑαυτοὺσ ἀγνοοῦντεσ, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἐπιφανῶσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 95:2)
  • κάλλοσ γὰρ ἀνθρώπουσ μάλιστα δὴ χαυνοῖ καὶ ἀναπείθει τρυφᾶν, ὡσ ἂν δόξησ μὲν ἑτέρασ οὐ δεομένουσ, ὅταν τισ περιβόητοσ ᾖ τὸ εἶδοσ, ἡδίονοσ δ̓ οὔσησ τῆσ ῥᾳθυμίασ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 28:2)

Synonyms

  1. unsubstantial

Related

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

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