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χλευασμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χλευασμός χλεθασμού

Structure: χλευασμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. Irony (as a figure of speech)
  2. mockery, piece of impertinence, (incidence of) scoffing

Declension

Second 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

  • "Ἐπικουρείων δὲ χλευασμοὺσ καὶ γέλωτασ οὔτι φοβητέον, οἷσ τολμῶσι χρῆσθαι καὶ κατὰ τῆσ προνοίασ μῦθον αὐτὴν συναποκαλοῦντεσ. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 19 1:3)
  • τοὺσ δὲ συριγμοὺσ τοὺσ ἐν ταῖσ κοιναῖσ πανηγύρεσι τῶν Ἑλλήνων καὶ τοὺσ χλευασμούσ, ὅτε τισ ἐπιβάλοιτο κηρύττειν τινὰ τῶν προειρημένων, οὐδ’ ἂν ἐξηγήσαιτο ῥᾳδίωσ οὐδείσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 30, ii. res graeciae 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. mockery

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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