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σπουδαίου (spoudaiou)

σπουδαίου is an Ancient Greek form of σπουδαῖος, meaning “in haste, quick; energy”. It is the genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 35 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Caius Marius 44.1: … ετρῆσαι κελεύοντος ἠρώτησεν ὁ κάπηλος ὁ τι παθὼν οὐχὶ τὸν νέον, ὥσπερ εἴωθεν, ὠνεῖται καὶ δημοτικόν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ σπουδαίου καὶ πολυτελοῦς.

All forms of σπουδαῖος (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.