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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

  • τί δέ, καὶ Ἀρίστιπποσ ὁ Κυρηναῖοσ οὐχὶ τῶν δοκίμων φαίνεταί σοι φιλοσόφων; (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 33:1)
  • Τιμοκλῆσ, ὦ Ἥρα, ὁ Στωϊκὸσ καὶ Δᾶμισ ὁ Ἐπικούρειοσ χθέσ, οὐκ οἶδα ὅθεν σφίσιν ἀρξαμένου τοῦ λόγου, προνοίασ πέρι διελεγέσθην παρόντων μάλα συχνῶν καὶ δοκίμων ἀνθρώπων, ὅπερ μάλιστα ἠνίασέ με· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 4:1)
  • καὶ γάρ τοι πάτρισ, ἃν ὡξ Ἐφύρασ κτίσσέ ποτ’ Ἀρχίασ νάσω Τρινακρίασ μύελον, ἄνδρων δοκίμων πόλιν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 6)
  • Καὶ ἐν τούτῳ Γλαύκιπποσ, ἀνὴρ τῶν δοκίμων ἐν Μιλήτῳ, ἐκπεμφθεὶσ παρὰ Ἀλέξανδρον παρὰ τοῦ δήμου τε καὶ τῶν ξένων τῶν μισθοφόρων, οἷσ μᾶλλόν τι ἐπετέτραπτο ἡ πόλισ τά τε τείχη ἔφη ἐθέλειν τοὺσ Μιλησίουσ καὶ τοὺσ λιμένασ παρέχειν κοινοὺσ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ καὶ Πέρσαισ καὶ τὴν πολιορκίαν ἐπὶ τούτοισ λύειν ἠξίου. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 19 1:1)
  • τί γὰρ ἄλλο ἢ δύναμιν δοκιμαστικήν τε καὶ διακριτικὴν τῶν δοκίμων τε καὶ ἀδοκίμων δραχμῶν; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 7:3)

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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