περίεργον (periergon)

περίεργον is an Ancient Greek form of περίεργος, meaning “meddlesome; over-elaborate”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 50 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.2.53: … ς ὅτι μάλιστα προαχθῇ κατὰ φιλοσοφίαν. θάψαι δὲ καὶ ἡμᾶς ὅπου ἂν δοκῇ μάλιστα ἁρμόττον εἶναι τοῦ κήπου, μηδὲν περίεργον μήτε περὶ τὴν ταφὴν μήτε περὶ τὸ μνημεῖον ποιοῦντας.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 271: … σιμωτάτου Κυριακοῦ τοῦ συμπρεσβυτέρου· ὃν αἰσχύνομαι συνιστῶν σοι καὶ οἰκεῖον ποιῶν δι’ ἐμαυτοῦ, μή ποτε δόξω περίεργόν τι ποιεῖν σοὶ προσάγων τὰ ἴδιά σου καὶ ἐξαίρετα. ἀλλʼ ἐπειδή με δεῖ καὶ μάρτυρα εἶναι τῆς ἀληθείας, καὶ τοῖς …

All forms of περίεργος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.