φαῦλα (phaula)

φαῦλα is an Ancient Greek form of φαῦλος, meaning “poor, mean, trivial, bad”. It is the accusative plural neuter adjective.

Found 144 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.118: Ἀκιβδήλους τοὺς σπουδαίους φυλακτικούς τʼ εἶναι τοῦ ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον αὑτοὺς παριστάναι, διὰ παρασκευῆς τῆς τὰ φαῦλα μὲν ἀποκρυπτούσης, τὰ δʼ ὑπάρχοντα ἀγαθὰ φαίνεσθαι ποιούσης. ἀπλάστους τε· περιῃρηκέναι γὰρ ἐν τῇ φωνῇ τὸ πλά …

Arrian, Cynegeticus 4.5: … ἐπὶ τούτοις τὰ μέλανα, εἰ τύχοι ἀναπεπταμένα τε καὶ γοργὰ ἰδεῖν· τρίτα δὲ τὰ χαροπά· οὐδὲ γὰρ οὐδὲ τὰ χαροπὰ φαῦλά ἐστιν, οὐδὲ φαύλων κυνῶν σύμβολα, εἰ τύχοι καθαρὰ καὶ γοργὰ ἰδεῖν.

All forms of φαῦλος (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.