νωθρός

From νωθής (nōthḗs, “sluggish, slothful”) +‎ -ρός (-rós, adjective suffix). The origin of νωθής (nōthḗs, “slow, indolent, stubborn”) is disputed. Proto-Indo-European *n̥- has been proposed to explain the initial, combined with the roots of ὄθομαι (óthomai, “to show consideration for others, fight shy of”), only used in connection with a negative particle, or ὠθέω (ōthéō, “to push, thrust, drive, throw back”) respectively. A genetical relation with Sanskrit आध्र (ādhrá, “poor, destitute, indigent, weak”), presupposing a *nh₃dh-ro-, is perhaps less improbable than generally thought. Compare also արհամարհ (arhamarh, “contemptible, low, poor, sorry”), an Iranian loan.

νωθρός • (nōthrós) m (feminine νωθρᾱ́, neuter νωθρόν); first/second declension

1. sluggish, slothful

   Synonyms: νωθής (nōthḗs), νωχελής (nōkhelḗs)

2. making sluggish

• Greek: νωθρός (nothrós)

• “νωθρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “νωθρός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• νωθρός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette

From Ancient Greek νωθρός (nōthrós), from νωθής (nōthḗs, “sluggish, lazy”).

• IPA^(key): /noˈθɾos/
• Hyphenation: νω‧θρός

νωθρός • (nothrós) m (feminine νωθρή, neuter νωθρό)

1. sluggish, languid, lazy (having little motion, disinclined to move)
   • 1979, “Θεσσαλονίκη [Thessaloniki]”, in Nikos Kavvadias (lyrics), Thanos Mikroutsikos (music), Ο Σταυρός του Νότου [Southern Cross], performed by Giannis Koutras:

     Απάνω στο γιατάκι σου φίδι νωθρό κοιμάται,
     Και φέρνει βόλτες ψάχνοντας τα ρούχα σου η μαϊμού.

     Apáno sto giatáki sou fídi nothró koimátai,
     Kai férnei vóltes psáchnontas ta roúcha sou i maïmoú.

     On your bunk bed, a sluggish snake is sleeping,
     And the monkey goes about, searching through your clothes.

2. (of a mind) dull, slow

• (sluggish, languid): οκνός (oknós), ακαμάτης (akamátis), χαλαρός (chalarós)
• (dull, slow): αργός (argós)

• (antonym(s) of “sluggish, languid”): εργατικός (ergatikós), φιλόπονος (filóponos), προκομμένος (prokomménos)

• νωθρότητα f (nothrótita, “sluggishness, laziness”)
• νωθρά (nothrá, “sluggishly, lazily”) (adverb)