φειδωλός

φειδός (pheidós) + the same suffix found in ἁμαρτωλός (hamartōlós, “sinful”).

φειδωλός • (pheidōlós) m (feminine φειδωλή, neuter φειδωλόν); first/second declension

1. sparing, thrifty

• → Greek: φειδωλός (feidolós) (learned)
• Translingual: Pheidole

• “φειδωλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φειδωλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φειδωλός 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
• Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ascetic idem, page 43.
  • austere idem, page 53.
  • close idem, page 138.
  • economical idem, page 261.
  • frugal idem, page 347.
  • mean idem, page 519.
  • miserly idem, page 534.
  • near idem, page 553.
  • niggardly idem, page 558.
  • parsimonious idem, page 593.
  • penurious idem, page 603.
  • saving idem, page 735.
  • skin-flint idem, page 781.
  • sordid idem, page 794.
  • sparing idem, page 798.
  • stingy idem, page 818.
  • thrifty idem, page 870.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φειδωλός”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
• “φειδωλός”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek φειδωλός (pheidōlós).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /fi.ðoˈlos/
• Hyphenation: φει‧δω‧λός

φειδωλός • (feidolós) m (feminine φειδωλή, neuter φειδωλό)

1. sparing, thrifty, parsimonious