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χωλός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χωλός χωλή χωλόν

Structure: χωλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. lame, halting, limping
  2. (figuratively) maimed, imperfect, defective

Declension

First/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

  • καὶ μὴν καὶ Ῥουφῖνον τὸν Κύπριον ‐ λέγω δὴ τὸν χωλὸν τὸν ἐκ τοῦ περιπάτου ‐ ἰδὼν ἐπὶ πολὺ τοῖσ περιπάτοισ ἐνδιατρίβοντα, Οὐδέν ἐστιν, ἔφη, ἀναισχυντότερον χωλοῦ Περιπατητικοῦ. (Lucian, (no name) 54:1)
  • ’ Δωρίωνοσ τοῦ κρουματοποιοῦ κυλλόποδοσ ὄντοσ ἀπώλετο ἐν συμποσίῳ τοῦ χωλοῦ ποδὸσ τὸ βλαυτίον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 19 1:4)
  • καὶ γὰρ αἱ Δαμωνίδα τοῦ χωλοῦ κρηπῖδεσ, ἃσ ἀπολέσασ εὔχετο τοῖσ τοῦ κλέψαντοσ ἐναρμόσαι ποσί, φαῦλαι μὲν ἦσαν ἐκείνῳ δ’ ἡρ̀μοττον. (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 3 11:2)
  • ἔτι δὲ μᾶλλον ἐφυβρίζων ὁ Τίμαιοσ ἐκ τοῦ σκέλουσ φησὶ τοῦ χωλοῦ τὰ παιδάρια τὸν νεκρὸν ἐφαψάμενα τοῦ Φιλίστου σύρειν διὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ· (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 35 5:1)
  • Ἀρκεσίλεωσ γὰρ ὁ Βάττου τε τοῦ χωλοῦ καὶ Φερετίμησ οὐκ ἔφη ἀνέξεσθαι κατὰ τὰ ὁ Μαντινεὺσ Δημῶναξ ἔταξε, ἀλλὰ ἀπαίτεε τὰ τῶν προγόνων γέρεα. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 162 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. lame

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