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ἐλευθέριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλευθέριος ἐλευθέριον

Structure: ἐλευθερι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. speaking or acting like a freeman, free-spirited, frank, liber
  2. freely giving, bountiful, liberal
  3. fit for a freeman, liberal;
  4. free, noble
  5. the Deliverer

Examples

  • ἐγὼ γὰρ οὐ τῶν ἀφανῶν ἐν Ἀκράγαντι ὤν, ἀλλ’ εἰ καί τισ ἄλλοσ εὖ γεγονὼσ καὶ τραφεὶσ ἐλευθερίωσ καὶ παιδείᾳ προσεσχηκώσ, ἀεὶ διετέλουν τῇ μὲν πόλει δημοτικὸν ἐμαυτὸν παρέχων, τοῖσ δὲ συμπολιτευομένοισ ἐπιεικῆ καὶ μέτριον, βίαιον δὲ ἢ σκαιὸν ἢ ὑβριστικὸν ἢ αὐθέκαστον οὐδεὶσ οὐδὲν ἐπεκάλει μου τῷ προτέρῳ ἐκείνῳ βίῳ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 2:1)
  • "πάντα δυναμένουσ ὀξέωσ τε καὶ τορῶσ διακονεῖν, ἀναβάλλεσθαι δ’ οὐκ ἐπισταμένουσ ἐπιδέξι’ ἐλευθερίωσ οὐδ’ ἁρμονίαν λόγων λαβόντασ ὀρθῶσ ὑμνῆσαι θεῶν τε καὶ ἀνθρώπων εὐδαιμόνων βίον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 38 1:3)
  • "ὁ δὲ Ἄνυτοσ πάνυ ἐλευθερίωσ καὶ ἐρωτικῶσ, λεγόντων τινῶν ὡσ ἀγνώμονα εἰή πεποιηκὼσ Ἀλκιβιάδησ, οὐ μὰ Δί’, ἔφη, ἀλλ’ εὐγνωμονέστατα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 47 3:3)
  • ἀνακαλεσαμένων δ’ αὐτὸν τῶν Ἀρεοπαγιτῶν καὶ κελευόντων βέλτιον ζῆν, ’ ἀλλὰ καὶ νῦν, εἶπεν, ἐλευθερίωσ ζῶ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 64 1:2)
  • οὕτω δ’ ἐκκλαπέντι τῷ Ἀράτῳ καὶ διαφυγόντι τὸν κίνδυνον εὐθὺσ μὲν ἐνεφύετο καὶ συνηύξετο τὸ σφοδρὸν καὶ διάπυρον μῖσοσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ τυράννουσ, τρεφόμενοσ δὲ παρὰ τοῖσ ἐν Ἄργει ξένοισ καὶ φίλοισ πατρῴοισ ἐλευθερίωσ, καὶ τὸ σῶμα βλαστάνον ὁρῶν εἰσ εὐεξίαν καὶ μέγεθοσ, ἐπέδωκεν ἑαυτὸν ἀσκήσει τῇ περὶ παλαίστραν, ὥστε καὶ πένταθλον ἀγωνίσασθαι καὶ στεφάνων τυχεῖν. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 3 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. freely giving

  2. fit for a freeman

  3. free

  4. the Deliverer

Related

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

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