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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

  • τίσ τ’ ἄρ’ ὅδ’ ἐστὶ πάχιστοσ ἀνὴρ ἠΰσ τε μέγασ τε, ἔξοχοσ ἀνθρώπων κεφαλὴν καὶ εὐρέασ ὤμουσ; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 8:2)
  • κεῖται δ’ ἐν μέσσοισι δύο χρυσοῖο τάλαντα, τῷ δόμεν, ὃσ μετὰ πᾶσιν ἐριζέμεν ἔξοχοσ εἰή. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 41:10)
  • ἐν τούτῳ δὲ κατιδὼν ὁ τῶν Γαλατῶν βασιλεὺσ καὶ τεκμηράμενοσ ἀπὸ τῶν συμβόλων ἄρχοντα τοῦτον εἶναι, πολὺ πρὸ τῶν ἄλλων ἐξελάσασ τὸν ἵππον ὑπηντίασεν, ἅμα τῇ φωνῇ προκλητικὸν ἐπαλαλάζων καὶ τὸ δόρυ κραδαίνων, ἀνὴρ μεγέθει τε σώματοσ ἔξοχοσ Γαλατῶν, καὶ πανοπλίᾳ ἐν ἀργύρῳ καὶ χρυσῷ καὶ βαφαῖσ καὶ πᾶσι ποικίλμασιν, ὥσπερ ἀστραπῇ, διαφέρων στιλβούσῃ. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 7 1:1)
  • σὺν καὶ τρίτοσ ἠε͂ν Οἰλεύσ, ἔξοχοσ ἠνορέην καὶ ἐπαΐξαι μετόπισθεν εὖ δεδαὼσ δῄοισιν, ὅτε κλίνωσι φάλαγγασ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 2:14)
  • αἶψα δὲ τόνγε σφωιτέρων ὀίων ὅτισ ἔξοχοσ, εἰσ ἓ κομίσσαι ἧκεν ἐποτρύνασ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 7:41)

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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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