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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

  • πρόσ <σε> γενειάδοσ, ὦ φίλοσ, ὦ δοκιμώτατοσ Ἑλλάδι, ἄντομαι ἀμφιπίτνουσα τὸ σὸν γόνυ καὶ χέρα δειλαία· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, hexameter4)
  • ἀποψηφισαμένησ δὲ τῆσ βουλῆσ τῶν Ῥωμαίων τὰσ διαλλαγὰσ οἱ μὲν ἄλλοι πρέσβεισ ἀπῄεσαν ἐκ τοῦ βουλευτηρίου σιωπῇ, ὁ δὲ ἐπιφανέστατοσ ἐξ αὐτῶν καὶ κατὰ τὴν μαντικὴν ἐμπειρίαν δοκιμώτατοσ, ἐπιστὰσ ταῖσ θύραισ καὶ περιβλέψασ ἅπαντασ τοὺσ παρόντασ ἐν τῷ συνεδρίῳ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 12, chapter 13 3:1)
  • ἡμέρῃσι δὲ οὐ πολλῇσι μετὰ τὴν ἄπιξιν τὴν ἐσ Θήβασ ὕστερον ἦλθον αὐτῶν ὁπλῖται χίλιοι, ἦγε δὲ αὐτοὺσ Ἁρμοκύδησ ἀνὴρ τῶν ἀστῶν δοκιμώτατοσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 17 3:1)
  • πατρὸσ μὲν Ὀνήτοροσ, Μενελάου δὲ ἦν κυβερνήτησ, δοκιμώτατοσ δὲ ἐσ τὴν τέχνην, καὶ ὡσ Σούνιον ἤδη τὸ ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ παραπλέοντα ἐπέλαβεν αὐτὸν τὸ χρεών· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 4:2)

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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