Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ξεστός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξεστός ξεστή ξεστόν

Structure: ξεστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ce/w

Sense

  1. smoothed, polished, wrought, of polished stone

Examples

  • καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε Σίμων ἐπὶ τὸν τάφον τοῦ πατρὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ ὕψωσεν αὐτὸν τῇ ὁράσει λίθῳ ξεστῷ ἐκ τῶν ὄπισθεν καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 13:27)
  • κεισόμεσθα δὲ νεκρὼ δύ’ ἑξῆσ τῷδ’ ἐπὶ ξεστῷ τάφῳ, ἀθάνατον ἄλγοσ σοί, ψόγοσ δὲ σῷ πατρί. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 13:7)
  • οἱο͂ν καὶ τόδ’ ἔρεξε καὶ ἔτλη καρτερὸσ ἀνὴρ ἵππῳ ἔνι ξεστῷ, ἵν’ ἐνήμεθα πάντεσ ἄριστοι Ἀργείων Τρώεσσι φόνον καὶ κῆρα φέροντεσ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 29:5)
  • Ἀντιοχεῦσι δὲ τοῖσ ἐν Συρίᾳ μεγίστην πόλιν οἰκοῦσιν, ἣν κατὰ μῆκοσ τέμνει πλατεῖα, ταύτην αὐτὴν στοαῖσ παρ’ ἑκάτερα καὶ λίθῳ τὴν ὕπαιθρον ὁδὸν ξεστῷ καταστορέσασ πλεῖστον εἰσ κόσμον καὶ τὴν τῶν οἰκούντων εὐχρηστίαν ὠφέλησεν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 172:1)

Synonyms

  1. smoothed

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

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