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ἀκριβής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκριβής ἀκριβές

Structure: ἀκριβη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. exact, accurate, precise, made or done to a nicety
  2. exact, precise, strict, consummate, painfully exact, over-nice, precise, curious, to a nicety, precisely
  3. parsimonious, frugal

Examples

  • πρόσ τε γὰρ ἐπιστήμην ἀρκεῖ τὸ λαβεῖν, καθάπερ ἐπὶ τῶν νοτίων μερῶν, ὅτι ὑπὲρ Μερόησ μέχρι τρισχιλίων σταδίων προελθόντι τῆσ οἰκησίμου τίθεσθαι [πέρασ] προσῆκεν οὐχ ὡσ ἂν τούτου ἀκριβεστάτου πέρατοσ ὄντοσ, ἀλλ’ ἐγγύσ γε τἀκριβοῦσ, οὕτω κἀκεῖ τοὺσ ὑπὲρ τῆσ Βρεττανικῆσ οὐ πλείουσ τούτων θετέον ἢ μικρῷ πλείουσ, οἱο͂ν τετρακισχιλίουσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 16:14)

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

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