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τεναγῖτις

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Οὐ γὰρ ἀργίας ὤνιονὑγίεια καὶ ἀπραξίας, ἅ γε δὴ μέγιστα κακῶν ταῖς νόσοις πρόσεστι, καὶ οὐδὲν διαφέρει τοῦ τὰ ὄμματα τῷ μὴ διαβλέπειν καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῷ μὴ φθέγγεσθαι φυλάττοντος ὁ τὴν ὑγίειαν ἀχρηστίᾳ καὶ ἡσυχίᾳ σῴζειν οἰόμενος → For health is not to be purchased by idleness and inactivity, which are the greatest evils attendant on sickness, and the man who thinks to conserve his health by uselessness and ease does not differ from him who guards his eyes by not seeing, and his voice by not speaking

Plutarch, Advice about Keeping Well, section 24
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Transliteration A: tenagîtis Transliteration B: tenagitis Transliteration C: tenagitis Beta Code: tenagi=tis

English (LSJ)

ιδος, fem. Adj.

   A shallow, AP9.551 (Antiphil.).

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

τενᾰγῖτις: -ιδος, θηλ. ἐπίθετ., ἀβαθής, «ῥηχή»,, τεναγῖτιν... εἰς ἅλα Ἀνθ. Π. 9. 551.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ίτιδος
adj. f.
qui forme des bas-fonds.
Étymologie: τέναγος.

Greek Monolingual

-ίτιδος, ἡ, Α
επίθ. αβαθής, ρηχή («τεναγῑτιν ὅτ' εἰς ἅλα κῶλον ἐλαφρὸν στήσας», Ανθ. Παλ.).
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < τέναγος + επίθημα -ῖτις (πρβλ. τεμεν-ῖτις)].