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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

  • εἴ σοι γονεῖσ παρῆσαν ἢ παίδων γοναί, τήνδε θηρσὶν ἀγρίοισ ἐσκεύασα ἂν δαψιλῆ θοῖναν ἀντὶ τῶν ἀνεγκλήτων ἐμοὶ καὶ προγόνοισ ἐμοῖσ ἀποδεδειγμένων ὁλοσχερῆ βεβαίαν πίστιν ἐξόχωσ Ἰουδαίων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:31)
  • ἁπάσασ εἶπον, ἐξόχωσ δ’ ἐμέ, ἣ τὰσ παρ’ ἱστοῖσ ἐκλιποῦσα κερκίδασ ἐσ μείζον’ ἥκω, θῆρασ ἀγρεύειν χεροῖν. (Euripides, episode 2:6)
  • ἐν δὲ Περγάμῳ πρότερον μὲν ἐξόχωσ,11 νῦν δὲ οὔ, μυρεψοῦ τινοσ ἐκπονήσαντοσ, ἐσκευάσθη τὸ παρ’ οὐδενί πω γεγονὸσ λιβανώτινον μύρον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:34)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ πομπῇ τῶν Διονυσίων ἣν ἔπεμψεν ἄρχων γενόμενοσ, ᾖδεν ὁ χορὸσ εἰσ αὐτὸν ποιήματα Καστορίωνοσ τοῦ Σολέωσ, ἐν οἷσ ἡλιόμορφοσ προσηγορεύετο ἐξόχωσ δ’ εὐγενέτασ ἡλιόμορφοσ ζαθέοισ ἄρχων σε τιμαῖσι γεραίρει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 60 3:1)
  • υἱὸν δ’ Ἄκτοροσ ἐξόχωσ τίμασεν ἐποίκων Αἰγίνασ τε Μενοίτιον· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 9 18:2)

Related

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

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