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μορμολύκειο

From LSJ

Quibus enim nihil est in ipsis opis ad bene beateque vivendum → Every age is burdensome to those who have no means of living well and happily

Cicero, de Senectute

Greek Monolingual

το
(ΑΜ μορμολύκειον και μορμολυκεῖον) μορμολύκη
προσωπίδα, μάσκα που παρίστανε το μυθολογικό τέρας Μορμώ και με την οποία οι αρχαίοι Έλληνες φόβιζαν τα παιδιά, σκιάχτρο, φόβητρο, μπαμπούλας
νεοελλ.
(κατ' επέκτ.) πολύ άσχημος άνθρωπος
αρχ.
φρ. «μορμολυκεῖον κωμῳδικόν» — κωμική μάσκα.

Translations

mask

Achi: k'ooj; Afrikaans: masker; Albanian: maskë; Amharic: ጭምብል; Arabic: قِناع‎, كِمامة‎; Egyptian Arabic: قناع‎, ماسك‎; Moroccan Arabic: ماسك‎; Armenian: դիմակ; Assamese: মুখা; Azerbaijani: maska; Bashkir: битлек, маска; Belarusian: маска; Bengali: মাস্ক; Bulgarian: маска; Burmese: မျက်နှာဖုံး; Catalan: màscara, careta; Cherokee: ᎠᎬᏚᎶ; Chinese Mandarin: 面具, 面罩; Classical Nahuatl: xāyacatl; Czech: maska; Danish: maske; Dutch: masker; Erzya: чамакс; Esperanto: masko; Estonian: mask; Etruscan: phersu; Faroese: gríma, gekkaskortur, maska; Finnish: naamari, naamio, maski; French: masque; Fula Adlam: 𞤸𞤵𞥅𞤪𞤭𞤪𞤣𞤵 𞤴𞤫𞥅𞤧𞤮‎; Roman: huurirdu yeeso; Galician: máscara; Georgian: ნიღაბი, მასკა, პირბადე; German: Maske; Greek: μορμολύκειο, προσωπείο, προσωπίδα, μάσκα; Ancient Greek: μορμολύκειον, προσωπεῖον, προσωπίς; Hebrew: מַסֵּכָה‎, צָעִיף‎; Hindi: मुखौटा, मास्क, नक़ाब; Hungarian: maszk, álarc; Icelandic: gríma; Indonesian: topeng, masker, kedok; Irish: púic, masc; Italian: maschera, mascherina; Japanese: 仮面, 覆面, お面, マスク, 面形; Kazakh: маска; Khmer: ក្បាំងមុខ, ម៉ាសក៍, ប៉ាន, ឧណ្ហីស; Korean: 마스크, 가면(假面); Kyrgyz: маска; Lao: ໜ້າກາກ; Latin: persona, masca; Latvian: maska; Lithuanian: kaukė; Macedonian: маска; Malay: topeng, kedok, penutup muka, pelitup; Maori: ārai kanohi; Mongolian Cyrillic: баг, маск; Mòcheno: lòrf; Norman: vîsagiéthe; Norwegian Bokmål: maske; Nynorsk: maske; Occitan: masca; Old English: grīma; Old Norse: gríma; Pashto: نقاب‎; Persian: ماسک‎, نقاب‎; Plautdietsch: Frauz; Polish: maska, maseczka; Portuguese: máscara; Romagnol: mascaréna; Romanian: mască; Russian: маска, личина; Samoan: ufimata; Scottish Gaelic: sgàile, masg, aghaidh-choimheach, brat-gnùise; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: кри̑нка, ма̀ска, кра̀буља, ли̏чина, о̀бразина; Roman: krȋnka, màska, kràbulja, lȉčina, òbrazina; Slovak: maska; Slovene: krinka, maska; Spanish: máscara, mascarilla; Swahili: barakoa; Swedish: mask; Sylheti: ꠢꠥꠙꠣ; Tajik: ниқоб; Thai: หน้ากาก; Tibetan: འབག; Turkish: maske; Turkmen: maska; Ukrainian: маска; Urdu: ماسک‎, نقاب‎; Uyghur: نىقاب‎, ماسكا‎; Uzbek: maska, niqob; Vietnamese: mặt nạ; Volapük: maskar; Walloon: fås vizaedje, masse; Welsh: mwgwd; Yiddish: מאַסקע‎