περπερεύομαι

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Transliteration A: perpereúomai Transliteration B: perpereuomai Transliteration C: perpereyomai Beta Code: perpereu/omai

English (LSJ)

   A boast, brag, 1 Ep.Cor.13.4, M.Ant.5.5.

German (Pape)

[Seite 603] ein πέρπερος sein, wie ein πέρπερος reden, handeln, d. i. windbeuteln, großprahlen, aufschneiden, sich womit brüsten, lügen, wie ἀλαζονεύομαι, Sp., N. T., wo es προπετεύεται, καλλωπίζεται erklärt wird.

French (Bailly abrégé)

être léger, frivole, étourdi.
Étymologie: πέρπερος.

English (Strong)

middle voice from perperos (braggart; perhaps by reduplication of the base of πέραν); to boast: vaunt itself.

English (Thayer)

(to be πέρπερος, i. e. vain-glorious, braggart, Polybius 32,6, 5; 40,6, 2; Epictetus diss. 3,2, 14); to boast oneself (A. V. vaunt oneself): Antoninus 5,5; the compound ἐμπερπερεύεσθαι is used of adulation, employing rhetorical embellishments in extolling another excessively, in Cicero, ad Attic. 1,14. Hesychius περπερεύεται. κατεπαίρεται); Cf. Osiander (or Wetstein) on 1 Corinthians , the passage cited (Gataker on Marc. Antoninus 5,5, p. 143).

Greek Monolingual

ΜΑ πέρπερος
καυχιέμαι, μιλώ ή συμπεριφέρομαι επιδεικτικά και αλαζονικά («ἡ ἀγάπη οὐ περπερεύεται, οὐ φυσιοῡται», ΚΔ).