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δόκιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δόκιμος

Structure: δοκιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: de/xomai

Sense

  1. assayed, examined, tested
  2. approved, esteemed, notable, most approved
  3. excellent, notable, considerable
  4. really, truly

Examples

  • ἔτι κἀκεῖνο εἰπεῖν ἄξιον, ὅτι οὐδὲ τερπνὸν ἐν αὐτῇ τὸ κομιδῇ μυθῶδεσ καὶ τὸ τῶν ἐπαίνων μάλιστα πρόσαντεσ παῤ ἑκάτερον τοῖσ ἀκούουσιν, ἢν μὴ τὸν συρφετὸν καὶ τὸν πολὺν δῆμον ἐπινοῇσ, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ δικαστικῶσ καὶ νὴ Δία συκοφαντικῶσ προσέτι γε ἀκροασομένουσ, οὓσ οὐκ ἄν τι λάθοι παραδραμόν, ὀξύτερον μὲν τοῦ Ἄργου ὁρῶντασ καὶ πανταχόθεν τοῦ σώματοσ, ἀργυραμοιβικῶσ δὲ τῶν λεγομένων ἕκαστα ἐξετάζοντασ, ὡσ τὰ μὲν παρακεκομμένα εὐθὺσ ἀπορρίπτειν, παραδέχεσθαι δὲ τὰ δόκιμα καὶ ἔννομα καὶ ἀκριβῆ τὸν τύπον, πρὸσ οὓσ ἀποβλέποντα χρὴ συγγράφειν, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων ὀλίγον φροντίζειν, κἂν διαρραγῶσιν ἐπαινοῦντεσ. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 101)
  • καὶ μόνη σοι αὕτη πιστὴ καὶ βέβαιοσ ἐλπὶσ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀλήθειάν τε καὶ εὑρ́εσιν αὐτῆσ, άλλη δὲ οὐδ̓ ἡτισοῦν ἢ τὸ κρίνειν δύνασθαι καὶ χωρίζειν ἀπὸ τῶν ἀληθῶν τὰ ψευδῆ ὑπάρχειν σοι καὶ κατὰ τοὺσ ἀργυρογνώμονασ διαγιγνώσκειν ἅ τε δόκιμα καὶ ἀκίβδηλα καὶ ἃ παρακεκομμένα, καὶ εἴ ποτε τοιαύτην τινὰ δύναμιν καὶ τέχνην πορισάμενοσ ᾔεισ ἐπὶ τὴν ἐξέτασιν τῶν λεγομένων· (Lucian, 140:1)
  • καὶ ἀπ’ ἐκείνου διαμεμένηκεν ἐν Αὐλίδι πάντα τὰ ἱερεῖα εἶναι δόκιμα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 19 13:3)

Synonyms

  1. really

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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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