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εἰρηναῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰρηναῖος εἰρηναῖη εἰρηναῖον

Structure: εἰρηναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from ei)rh/nh

Sense

  1. peaceful, peaceable, the fruits of peace

Examples

  • εἰρηναῖον μὲν τὰσ ὁλκάδασ καὶ τὴν διὰ τούτων ἐμπορίαν, πολεμιστήριον δὲ τὰσ τριήρεισ, ὥσπερ ἁρ́μα ἁμιλλητήριον καὶ πολεμιστήριον· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 4:20)
  • ἔστι δὲ αὐτῆσ τὸ πολὺ μέροσ τραχὺ καὶ οὐκ εἰρηναῖον, πολὺ δὲ καὶ χώραν ἔχον εὐδαίμονα τοῖσ πᾶσι, σίτῳ δὲ καὶ διαφερόντωσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 2 14:9)
  • " Πύρροσ δ’, ὡσ οὐδὲν εἰρηναῖόν οἱ παρὰ τῆσ βουλῆσ ἀπήντησεν, ἐπὶ τὴν Ῥώμην ἠπείγετο, πάντα δῃῶν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 19:7)
  • τὰ μὲν δὴ ἄλλα ὄρνεα καὶ θηρία φεύγει μιν, ὁ δὲ τροχίλοσ εἰρηναῖόν οἱ ἐστὶ ἅτε ὠφελεομένῳ πρὸσ αὐτοῦ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 68 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. peaceful

Related

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

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