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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

  • ἦν δὲ Ἄρατοσ τῷ τρόπῳ πολιτικόσ, μεγαλόφρων, ἀκριβέστεροσ εἰσ τὰ κοινὰ μᾶλλον τῶν ἰδίων, πικρῶσ μισοτύραννοσ, ἔχθρασ ὁρ́ῳ καὶ φιλίασ ἀεὶ τῷ κοινῷ συμφέροντι χρώμενοσ. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 10 1:1)
  • ἀλλὰ λόγοσ μὲν ἔσται ἑκάστου καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τί σημαίνει, ἐὰν ᾖ ὄνομα, ὅτι τόδε τῷδε ὑπάρχει, ἢ ἀντὶ λόγου ἁπλοῦ ἀκριβέστεροσ· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 7 43:3)

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

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