μικρόψυχος

From μῑκρός (mīkrós, “small”) +‎ ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “spirit, soul”) +‎ -ος (-os).

μῑκρόψῡχος • (mīkrópsūkhos) m or f (neuter μῑκρόψῡχον); second declension

1. mean-spirited
   • 330 BCE, Demosthenes, On the Crown 269:

     εἰ δεῖ τὸν μὲν χρηστοῦ, τὸν δὲ μὴ μικροψύχου ποιεῖν ἔργον ἀνθρώπου.

     ei deî tòn mèn khrēstoû, tòn dè mḕ mikropsúkhou poieîn érgon anthrṓpou.

• “μικρόψυχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “μικρόψυχος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• μικρόψυχος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Pape, Wilhelm, Benseler, Gustav Eduard (1884) “μικρόψυχος”, in Wörterbuch der griechischen Eigennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• “μικρόψυχος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011