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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

  • "ἀπιστήσαιμι Εὐκράτει τῷ Δείνωνοσ, σοφῷ ἀνδρὶ καὶ μάλιστα ἐλευθερίῳ,^ τὰ δοκοῦντὰ οἱ λέγοντι οἴκοι παρ’ αὑτῷ ἐπ’ ἐξουσίασ; (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 15:4)
  • Παυσανίασ γὰρ ὁ Κλεομβρότου Λακεδαιμόνιοσ ἐλευθερώσασ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἀπὸ τῶν Μήδων μετὰ Ἑλλήνων τῶν ἐθελησάντων συνάρασθαι τοῦ κινδύνου καὶ τῆσ μάχησ, ἣ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἐγένετο, θύσασ ἐν τῇ Πλαταιέων ἀγορᾷ ἱερὰ Διὶ ἐλευθερίῳ καὶ ξυγκαλέσασ πάντασ τοὺσ συμμάχουσ, ἀπεδίδου Πλαταιεῦσι γῆν καὶ πόλιν τὴν σφετέραν ἔχοντασ αὐτονόμουσ οἰκεῖν, στρατεῦσαί τε μηδένα ποτὲ ἀδίκωσ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ μηδ’ ἐπὶ δουλείᾳ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 36 1:2)
  • ταύτην τὴν μάχην ἐμαχέσαντο τῇ τετράδι τοῦ Βοηδρομιῶνοσ ἱσταμένου κατ’ Ἀθηναίουσ, κατὰ δὲ Βοιωτοὺσ τετράδι τοῦ Πανέμου φθίνοντοσ, ᾗ καὶ νῦν ἔτι τὸ Ἑλληνικὸν ἐν Πλαταιαῖσ ἀθροίζεται συνέδριον καὶ θύουσι τῷ ἐλευθερίῳ Διὶ̈ Πλαταιεῖσ ὑπὲρ τῆσ νίκησ. (Plutarch, , chapter 19 7:1)
  • διὸ ἐνίοτε οἱ ἐναντίοι τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀντιποιοῦνται, οἱο͂ν ὁ ἄσωτοσ τῷ ἐλευθερίῳ καὶ ὁ αὐθάδησ τῷ σεμνῷ καὶ ὁ θρασὺσ τῷ ἀνδρείῳ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 93:2)
  • τοῦ δ’ ἐπιδεξίου ἐστὶ τοιαῦτα λέγειν καὶ ἀκούειν οἱᾶ τῷ ἐπιεικεῖ καὶ ἐλευθερίῳ ἁρμόττει· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 145:3)

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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