λακωνίζω

From Λᾰ́κων (Lắkōn) +‎ -ίζω (-ízō).

λακωνίζω • (lakōnízō)

1. to laconize; to imitate the Spartans, the Laconians, Lacedaemonians
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 342b:

     νῦν δὲ ἀποκρυψάμενοι ἐκεῖνο ἐξηπατήκασιν τοὺς ἐν ταῖς πόλεσι λακωνίζοντας, καὶ οἱ μὲν ὦτά τε κατάγνυνται μιμούμενοι

     nûn dè apokrupsámenoi ekeîno exēpatḗkasin toùs en taîs pólesi lakōnízontas, kaì hoi mèn ôtá te katágnuntai mimoúmenoi

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   • 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Alcibiades 23.3:

     Εὐδοκιμῶν δὲ δημοσίᾳ καὶ θαυμαζόμενος οὐχ ἧττον ἰδίᾳ τοὺς πολλοὺς κατεδημαγώγει καὶ κατεγοήτευε τῇ διαίτῃ λακωνίζων

     Eudokimôn dè dēmosíāi kaì thaumazómenos oukh hêtton idíāi toùs polloùs katedēmagṓgei kaì kategoḗteue tēî diaítēi lakōnízōn

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   1. (by extension) to speak laconically, in a concise or terse manner; to speak with brevity
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Protagoras 342:

        τὸ λακωνίζειν πολὺ μᾶλλόν ἐστιν φιλοσοφεῖν ἢ φιλογυμναστεῖν

        tò lakōnízein polù mâllón estin philosopheîn ḕ philogumnasteîn

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   2. (by extension) to act in the interests of the Spartans, Laconians; to favor the Spartans
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 4.4.2:

        γνόντες δ᾿ οἱ Ἀργεῖοι καὶ Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ Βοιωτοὶ καὶ Κορινθίων οἵ τε τῶν παρὰ βασιλέως χρημάτων μετεσχηκότες καὶ οἱ τοῦ πολέμου αἰτιώτατοι γεγενημένοι ὡς εἰ μὴ ἐκποδὼν ποιήσοιντο τοὺς ἐπὶ τὴν εἰρήνην τετραμμένους, κινδυνεύσει πάλιν ἡ πόλις λακωνίσαι, οὕτω δὴ σφαγὰς ἐπεχείρουν ποιεῖσθαι.

        gnóntes d’ hoi Argeîoi kaì Athēnaîoi kaì Boiōtoì kaì Korinthíōn hoí te tôn parà basiléōs khrēmátōn meteskhēkótes kaì hoi toû polémou aitiṓtatoi gegenēménoi hōs ei mḕ ekpodṑn poiḗsointo toùs epì tḕn eirḗnēn tetramménous, kinduneúsei pálin hē pólis lakōnísai, hoútō dḕ sphagàs epekheíroun poieîsthai.

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2. to be a pederast

   Synonym: παιδεραστέω (paiderastéō)

• “Λακωνίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Λακωνίζω”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λακωνίζω in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Pape, Wilhelm (1914) “λακωνίζω”, in Max Sengebusch, editor, Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache‎^[1] (in German), 3rd edition, Braunschweig: Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn
• λακωνίζω, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

From Ancient Greek λακωνίζω (lakōnízō). By surface analysis, Λᾰ́κων (Lắkōn) +‎ -ίζω (-ízo).

λακωνίζω • (lakonízo)

1. (intransitive) to laconize; speak laconically, in a terse or brief manner; to speak with brevity

   Antonyms: απεραντολογώ (aperantologó), πλατειάζω (plateiázo), μακρηγορώ (makrigoró)

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• George Constantopoulos Divry (1964) Divry's Modern English-Greek and Greek-English Desk Dictionary‎^[2] (in Greek), D.C. Divry, page 571
• λακωνίζω, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language