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ἀμείνων?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: ameinōn

Principal Part: ἀμείνων

Structure: ἀμειν (Stem) + ων (Comparative Ending)

Etym.: ἀγαθός, ἀγαθή, ἀγαθόν의 불규칙 비교급

Sense

  1. better, abler, stronger, braver
  2. better, fitter

Examples

  • ἐσχάτης ἀδικίας τὸ τοιοῦτον, ὡς φαῖεν ἂν καὶ οἱ ἄριστοι τῶν νομοθετῶν, οἱο῀ν ὁ Σόλων καὶ ὁ Δράκων, ἔνορκον ποιησάμενοι τοῖς δικασταῖς τὸ ὁμοίως ἀμφοῖν ἀκροᾶσθαι καὶ τὸ τὴν εὔνοιαν ἴσην τοῖς κρινομένοις ἀπονέμειν, ἄχρι ἂν ὁ τοῦ δευτέρου λόγος παρατεθεὶς θατέρου χείρων ἢ ἀμείνων φανῇ: (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 8:4)
  • καὶ μὰ τὸν Δί οὐδέτερος αὐτῶν ἀμείνων ἦν. (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 4:5)
  • δῆλον γὰρ ὡς καθ᾿ ἕνα τε καὶ συνάμα πάντων συνειλεγμένων μόνος αὐτὸς ἀμείνων ἂν ἦσθα. (Lucian, Harmonides 8:4)
  • πῶς ἀμείνων ὁ σίδηρος χρυσίου· (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 12:12)
  • ἀμείνων δὲ καὶ μουσικός, οἶμαι, τοῦ διακρίνειν ῥυθμοὺς καὶ ἁρμονίας ἐπισταμένου ὁ καὶ ψᾶλαι καὶ κιθαρίσαι αὐτὸς δυνάμενος. (Lucian, (no name) 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. better

  2. better

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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