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βέλτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βέλτερος βέλτερᾱ βέλτερον

Structure: βελτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from same Root as bou/lomai.

Sense

  1. better, more excellent, it is better

Examples

  • ὃσ δὲ μιῇ γλώσσῃ δίχ’ ἔχει νόον, οὗτοσ ἑταῖροσ δεινόσ, Κύρν’, ἐχθρὸσ βέλτεροσ ἢ φίλοσ ὤν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-138943)
  • Πολλοῖσ ἀχρήστοισι θεὸσ διδοῖ ἀνδράσιν ὄλβον, ὅστισ μήτ’ αὐτῷ βέλτεροσ οὐδὲν ἐὼν μήτε φίλοισ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389474)

Synonyms

  1. better

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

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