Ancient Greek

Adjective

φαῦλος • ‎(phaûlos) m ‎(feminine φαύλη or φαῦλος, neuter φαῦλον); first/second declension

1. (of things) easy, slight
   • Eur, The Suppliants 317
   1. trivial, paltry, sorry, indifferent, miserable, poor
      • Hippocrates, On Fractures 775
   2. sorry, paltry, mean, bad
      • Euripides, Andromache 870
2. (of persons) low in rank, mean, common
   • Euripides, Fragments 689
   1. worthless, sorry, indifferent, poor, common, of no account, bad
      • Sophocles, Fragments 707
   2. careless, thoughtless, indifferent
      • Euripides, Medea 807
   3. (in good sense) simple, unaffected
      • Euripides, Fragments 476
   4. (of outward appearance) shabby, plain
      • Aristophanes, Assemblywomen 617, 626, 702
   5. (of health) ill
      • Hippocrates, Aphorisms 1245

Inflection

References

• φαῦλος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φαῦλος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «φαῦλος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “G5337”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bad idem, page 58.
  • base idem, page 64.
  • careless idem, page 114.
  • cheap idem, page 127.
  • clumsy idem, page 140.
  • coarse idem, page 140.
  • common idem, page 148.
  • commonplace idem, page 148.
  • contemptible idem, page 167.
  • degraded idem, page 206.
  • depraved idem, page 212.
  • despicable idem, page 217.
  • dirty idem, page 227.
  • disreputable idem, page 238.
  • evil idem, page 286.
  • execrable idem, page 290.
  • feeble idem, page 313.
  • flimsy idem, page 328.
  • gross idem, page 374.
  • humble idem, page 409.
  • ill idem, page 414.
  • incapable idem, page 427.
  • incompetent idem, page 429.
  • indifferent idem, page 433.
  • inefficient idem, page 435.
  • inferior idem, page 437.
  • inglorious idem, page 440.
  • lame idem, page 474.
  • little idem, page 495.
  • low idem, page 502.
  • low-born idem, page 502.
  • mean idem, page 519.
  • mediocre idem, page 521.
  • miserable idem, page 533.
  • niggardly idem, page 558.
  • obscure idem, page 566.
  • ordinary idem, page 579.
  • paltry idem, page 590.
  • parlous idem, page 593.
  • perfunctory idem, page 606.
  • petty idem, page 609.
  • pitiful idem, page 615.
  • plebeian idem, page 620.
  • poor idem, page 626.
  • poverty-stricken idem, page 630.
  • prosaic idem, page 653.
  • rough idem, page 722.
  • rude idem, page 724.
  • scurvy idem, page 743.
  • shabby idem, page 760.
  • shoddy idem, page 767.
  • sordid idem, page 794.
  • sorry idem, page 795.
  • squalid idem, page 807.
  • tawdry idem, page 857.
  • thin idem, page 866.
  • trivial idem, page 896.
  • trumpery idem, page 898.
  • unconsidered idem, page 911.
  • undignified idem, page 914.
  • ungentle idem, page 919.
  • unpromising idem, page 928.
  • unsatisfactory idem, page 931.
  • unskilful idem, page 932.
  • unworthy idem, page 937.
  • valueless idem, page 943.
  • vicious idem, page 950.
  • vile idem, page 952.
  • villainous idem, page 952.
  • vulgar idem, page 958.
  • weak idem, page 969.
  • wicked idem, page 978.
  • worthless idem, page 991.
  • wretched idem, page 993.