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ἐκπρεπής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκπρεπής ἐκπρεπές

Structure: ἐκπρεπη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)kpre/pw

Sense

  1. distinguished out of all, preeminent, remarkable
  2. unseemly, monstrous, without reasonable grounds

Examples

  • ἦν οὑμὸσ υἱὸσ κάλλοσ ἐκπρεπέστατοσ, ὁ σὸσ δ’ ἰδών νιν νοῦσ ἐποιήθη Κύπρισ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. distinguished out of all

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

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