ἀκρόχολος
οὐκ ἐν τῷ πολλῷ τὸ εὖ, ἀλλ' ἐν τῷ εὖ τὸ πολύ → good is not found in plenty but plenty in good, quality matters more than quantity
English (LSJ)
quick to anger, impassionate, impassioned, passionate, in passionate distress, irascible, ill-tempered, spinous, bad-tempered, extremely excited; v. sub ἀκράχολος.
Spanish (DGE)
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irascible, de mal genio Arist.EN 1126a18, Ph.2.268, Poll.2.214
•subst. τὸ ἀκρόχολον = la cólera Hermog.Id.2.7 (p.358).
French (Bailly abrégé)
ἀκράχολος ou ἀκρόχολος;
ος, ον :
1 emporté, passionné;
2 blême.
Étymologie: ἄκρος, χολή.
Russian (Dvoretsky)
ἀκρόχολος: Arst., Plut. = ἀκράχολος:
1 вспыльчивый, раздражительный Arph.;
2 взволнованный (Theocr. - v.l. ἀκρόχλοος).
German (Pape)
Translations
choleric
Bulgarian: раздразнителен, сприхав; Catalan: colèric; Dutch: cholerisch, kwaad; English: bad-tempered, bilious, bitchy, brainish, cantankerous, carnaptious, choleric, crabbit, crabby, cranky, crotchety, dyspeptic, edgy, fantoddish, fiery, fretful, grotchy, grouchy, grumpy, hissy, hotheaded, hot-headed, hot-livered, hot-tempered, hot-tempered;, huffy, humpy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, ornery, out of sorts, peevish, pettish, petulant, prickly, querulous, quick to anger, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, scratchy, shirty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snippety, snippish, snippy, snitchy, spitfire, splenetic, stressy, surly, testy, tetchy, tetty, thin-skinned, thorny, touchy, twitchy, umbrageous, waspish; Finnish: koleerinen, raivoisa; Galician: colérico; Greek: χολερικός, ευέξαπτος, ευερέθιστος, θερμοκέφαλος; Ancient Greek: ἀκράχολος, ἀκρόχολος, δύσοργος, ἐγκρασίχολος, ὀξυθυμίας, ὀξύθυμος, ὀξυκάρδιος, ὀξύρροπος, ὀξύς, ὀξύχολος, ὀργὴν ἄκρος, πλήκτης, ταχύμηνις, φιλόδηρις, χαλεπός, χολοδεκτικός; Hungarian: kolerikus, lobbanékony, hirtelen haragú, ingerlékeny; Italian: collerico; Latin irascibilis; Maori: whanewhane; Portuguese: colérico; Spanish: colérico; Swedish: kolerisk; Ukrainian: холерик
