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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

  • καὶ αὐτῶν γε τούτων ἀναστρέφων τὰσ χρήσεισ, ἵνα τὸ μὲν ὀνοματικὸν προσηγορικὸν γένηται, τὸ δὲ προσηγορικὸν ὀνοματικῶσ λέγηται, καὶ τὰ μὲν παθητικὰ ῥήματα δραστήρια, τὰ δὲ δραστήρια παθητικά· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 2:2)
  • καὶ μὴν ἔχω γε δόλια καὶ δραστήρια. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 4:27)
  • ἥκω κλύων τὰ δεινὰ καὶ δραστήρια δισσοῖν λεόντοιν· (Euripides, episode, iambic1)
  • καὶ τὰ μὲν παθητικὰ ῥήματα δραστήρια, τὰ δὲ δραστήρια παθητικά· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 24 1:5)

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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