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ἔξοχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔξοχος ἔξοχον

Structure: ἐξοχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)ce/xw

Sense

  1. standing out, eminent, excellent
  2. standing out from, most eminent, greatest, mightiest, eminent among
  3. especially, above others, as a high honour, beyond compare
  4. far above

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Νεοπτόλεμοσ δ’ Ἀπείρῳ διαπρυσίᾳ, βουβόται τόθι πρῶνεσ ἔξοχοι κατάκεινται Δωδώναθεν ἀρχόμενοι πρὸσ Ιὄνιον πόρον. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 4 15:3)
  • χαίρετ’ ἀριστῆεσ πολέμου μέγα κῦδοσ ἔχοντεσ, κοῦροι Ἀθηναίων, ἔξοχοι ἱπποσύνῃ, οἵ ποτε καλλιχόρου περὶ πατρίδοσ ὠλέσαθ’ ἥβην πλείστοισ Ἑλλήνων ἀντία μαρνάμενοι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2541)
  • ἠῶθεν δὲ κέλεσθε Μελάνθιον, αἰπόλον αἰγῶν, αἶγασ ἄγειν, αἳ πᾶσι μέγ’ ἔξοχοι αἰπολίοισιν, ὄφρ’ ἐπὶ μηρία θέντεσ Ἀπόλλωνι κλυτοτόξῳ τόξου πειρώμεσθα καὶ ἐκτελέωμεν ἀέθλον. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 21 34:10)

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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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