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δραστήριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δραστήριος δραστήριον

Structure: δραστηρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: dra/w

Sense

  1. vigorous, active, efficacious, activity, energy
  2. audacious

Examples

  • ἐκεῖνοι μὲν γὰρ ἐκ τῶν νεωτέρων ἐβούλοντο τοὺσ δραστηρίουσ τε καὶ ἥκιστα δημοτικοὺσ ἐπὶ τὴν ὑπατείαν προαγαγεῖν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 90 1:2)
  • καὶ τῶν βασιλικῶν τὸ πλεῖστον ηὐτομολήκεσαν σὺν αὐτοῖσ, Ῥοῦφοσ δὲ καὶ Γρᾶτοσ τρισχιλίουσ τὸ μαχιμώτατον τοῦ Ἡρώδου στρατεύματοσ ἔχοντεσ ἄνδρασ τοῖσ σώμασι δραστηρίουσ Ῥωμαίοισ προστίθενται. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 318:1)

Synonyms

  1. audacious

Related

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

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