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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥dus. Cognates include Lithuanian gurdùs, Latvian gur̃ds, Latin gurdus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bra.dýs/ → /βraˈðys/ → /vraˈðis/
Adjective
βρᾰδῠ́ς • (bradús) m (feminine βρᾰδεῖᾰ, neuter βραδῠ́); first/third declension
- slow
- slow-witted, dull
- (time) late, tardy
Inflection
Antonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
- Byzantine Greek: βραδύ (bradú)
References
- “βραδύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “βραδύς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “βραδύς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- βραδύς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- βραδύς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- βραδύς in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1021 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- dawdling idem, page 197.
- deliberate idem, page 207.
- dilatory idem, page 224.
- gradual idem, page 369.
- inactive idem, page 427.
- indolent idem, page 434.
- laggard idem, page 473.
- lagging idem, page 473.
- late idem, page 478.
- leisurely idem, page 485.
- lethargic idem, page 486.
- lingering idem, page 493.
- loitering idem, page 498.
- slack idem, page 782.
- slow idem, page 785.
- sluggish idem, page 786.
- stealthy idem, page 814.
- tardy idem, page 855.
- tedious idem, page 859.
- vacillating idem, page 942.
- wavering idem, page 968.
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN