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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

  • ὅτι οἰκοδομηθήσεται Ἱερουσαλὴμ σαπφείρῳ καὶ σμαράγδῳ καὶ λίθῳ ἐντίμῳ τὰ τείχη σου καὶ οἱ πύργοι καὶ οἱ προμαχῶνεσ ἐν χρυσίῳ καθαρῷ, (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 13:16)
  • Ἀνταλκίδᾳ δὲ τῷ Λάκωνι τὸν αὑτοῦ στέφανον εἰσ μύρον βάψασ ἔπεμψε, τῷ δὲ Ἐντίμῳ τοιαῦτα πολλὰ ἐποίει καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ συγγενικὸν ἄριστον ἐκάλει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 31 2:5)
  • θάπτεται δ’ εἰσ Ῥώμην κομισθεὶσ ἐντίμῳ ταφῇ καὶ χοὰσ αὐτῷ καθ’ ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν ἡ πόλισ ἐπιτελεῖ δημοσίᾳ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 52 7:1)

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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