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ψογερός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψογερός ψογερή ψογερόν

Structure: ψογερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fond of blaming, censorious

Examples

  • εἶδον γὰρ ἑκὰσ ἐὼν τὰ πόλλ’ ἐν ἀμαχανίᾳ ψογερὸν Ἀρχίλοχον βαρυλόγοισ ἔχθεσιν πιαινόμενον· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 2 16:3)
  • εἶδον γὰρ ἑκὰσ ἐὼν τὰ πόλλ’ ἐν ἀμαχανίᾳ ψογερὸν Ἀρχίλοχον βαρυλόγοισ ἔχθεσιν πιαινόμενον. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section1)

Synonyms

  1. fond of blaming

Similar forms

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

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