γλίσχρος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, paste, stick together”), the same root of γλίνη (glínē, “any viscous substance”), γλία (glía, “glue”), γλοιός (gloiós, “any glutinous substance”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡlís.kʰros/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈɡlis.kʰros/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɣlis.xros/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈɣlis.xros/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈɣlis.xros/
Adjective
γλῐ́σχρος • (glískhros) m (feminine γλῐ́σχρᾱ, neuter γλῐ́σχρον); first/second declension
- sticky, claggy, adhesive
- (figurative) sticking close, importunate
- clinging, clingy
- penurious, niggardly, stingy
- (of things) mean, shabby
Inflection
First and second declension of γλῐ́σχρος; γλῐ́σχρᾱ; γλῐ́σχρον (Attic)
Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
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Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |||||
Nominative | γλῐ́σχρος glískhros | γλῐ́σχρᾱ glískhrā | γλῐ́σχρον glískhron | γλῐ́σχρω glískhrō | γλῐ́σχρᾱ glískhrā | γλῐ́σχρω glískhrō | γλῐ́σχροι glískhroi | γλῐ́σχραι glískhrai | γλῐ́σχρᾰ glískhra | |||||
Genitive | γλῐ́σχρου glískhrou | γλῐ́σχρᾱς glískhrās | γλῐ́σχρου glískhrou | γλῐ́σχροιν glískhroin | γλῐ́σχραιν glískhrain | γλῐ́σχροιν glískhroin | γλῐ́σχρων glískhrōn | γλῐ́σχρων glískhrōn | γλῐ́σχρων glískhrōn | |||||
Dative | γλῐ́σχρῳ glískhrōi | γλῐ́σχρᾳ glískhrāi | γλῐ́σχρῳ glískhrōi | γλῐ́σχροιν glískhroin | γλῐ́σχραιν glískhrain | γλῐ́σχροιν glískhroin | γλῐ́σχροις glískhrois | γλῐ́σχραις glískhrais | γλῐ́σχροις glískhrois | |||||
Accusative | γλῐ́σχρον glískhron | γλῐ́σχρᾱν glískhrān | γλῐ́σχρον glískhron | γλῐ́σχρω glískhrō | γλῐ́σχρᾱ glískhrā | γλῐ́σχρω glískhrō | γλῐ́σχρους glískhrous | γλῐ́σχρᾱς glískhrās | γλῐ́σχρᾰ glískhra | |||||
Vocative | γλῐ́σχρε glískhre | γλῐ́σχρᾱ glískhrā | γλῐ́σχρον glískhron | γλῐ́σχρω glískhrō | γλῐ́σχρᾱ glískhrā | γλῐ́σχρω glískhrō | γλῐ́σχροι glískhroi | γλῐ́σχραι glískhrai | γλῐ́σχρᾰ glískhra | |||||
Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
γλῐ́σχρως glískhrōs | γλῐσχρότερος gliskhróteros | γλῐσχρότᾰτος gliskhrótatos | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- γλῐσχραίνομαι (gliskhraínomai)
- γλῐ́σχρᾰσμᾰ (glískhrasma)
- γλῐσχρεύομαι (gliskhreúomai)
- γλῐσχρῐ́ᾱ (gliskhríā)
- γλῐσχρολογῐ́ᾱ (gliskhrologíā)
- γλῐσχρότης (gliskhrótēs)
- γλῐσχρόχολος (gliskhrókholos)
- γλῐσχρώδης (gliskhrṓdēs)
- γλῐ́σχρων (glískhrōn)
Further reading
- γλίσχρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- γλίσχρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- γλίσχρος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- γλίσχρος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2020)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN