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ἄκομψος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκομψος ἄκομψη ἄκομψον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + κομψ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unadorned, boorish, rude, in speech

Examples

  • ᾗ καὶ Ἀρίστιπποσ οὐκ ἀκόμψωσ ἀλλὰ καὶ πάνυ ἀστείωσ ἐπέσκωψε τῷ λόγῳ πατέρα νοῦ καὶ φρενῶν κενόν. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 7 15:1)
  • ‐ Ἐμοὶ μέν, εἰ δεῖ οὕτωσ ἀποφήνασθαι φαύλωσ τε καὶ ἀκόμψωσ, ἀληθείᾳ δοκεῖ διαφέρειν καὶ τῷ ἐπίστασθαι οὐ μόνον τῶν πολλῶν, ἀλλὰ τῶν πάνυ ὀλίγων τε καὶ μακαρίων νενομισμένων . (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 1:4)

Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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