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ἔντιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔντιμος ἔντιμον

Structure: ἐντιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: timh/

Sense

  1. in honour, honoured, prized, honoured with or in, men in office, men of rank
  2. honoured, in honour
  3. in honour

Examples

  • σύ, βασιλεῦ, κτίσασ τὴν ἀπέραντον καὶ ἀμέτρητον γῆν, ἐξελέξω τὴν πόλιν ταύτην καὶ ἁγιάσασ τὸν τόπον τοῦτον εἰσ ὄνομά σοι τῷ τῶν ἁπάντων ἀπροσδεεῖ καὶ παρεδόξασασ ἐν ἐπιφανείᾳ μεγαλοπρεπεῖ, σύστασιν ποιησάμενοσ αὐτοῦ πρὸσ δόξαν τοῦ μεγάλου καὶ ἐντίμου ὀνόματόσ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 2:9)
  • ὃσ οὐκ ἐπῃσχύνθη πρόσωπον ἐντίμου, οὐδὲ οἶδε τιμὴν θέσθαι ἁδροῖσ θαυμασθῆναι πρόσωπα αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 34:19)
  • οἱ δὲ πρὸσ ταύτῃ τέσσαρασ υἱοὺσ ἀναγράφουσιν αὐτοῦ, Πόμπωνα, Πῖνον, Κάλπον, Μάμερκον, ὧν ἕκαστον οἴκου διαδοχὴν καὶ γένουσ ἐντίμου καταλιπεῖν. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 21 1:3)
  • ἐντίμου δὲ καὶ τὰ γύναια κηδείασ ἔτυχεν αὐτοῦ προστάξαντοσ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 86 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. in honour

  2. honoured

  3. in honour

Related

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

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