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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

  • καὶ ἐν ταῖσ ἡμέραισ ἐκείναισ ἀπὸ πολλῶν ἐντίμων Ἰούδα ἐπιστολαὶ ἐπορεύοντο πρὸσ Τωβίαν, καὶ αἱ Τωβία ἤρχοντο πρὸσ αὐτούσ, (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 6:17)
  • ἐν ὁδῷ δέ ποτε συνελασθεὶσ ὑπὸ χειμῶνοσ εἰσ ἔπαυλιν ἀνθρώπου πένητοσ, ὡσ οὐδὲν εὑρ͂ε πλέον οἰκήματοσ ἑνὸσ γλίσχρωσ ἕνα δέξασθαι δυναμένου, πρὸσ τοὺσ φίλουσ εἰπών ὡσ τῶν μὲν ἐντίμων παραχωρητέον εἰή τοῖσ κρατίστοισ, τῶν δὲ ἀναγκαίων τοῖσ ἀσθενεστάτοισ, Ὄππιον ἐκέλευσεν ἀναπαύσασθαι· (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 17 6:2)
  • οἱο͂σ ἄξιοσ ὢν μικρῶν μεγάλων ἀξιοῦν ἑαυτὸν τῶν ἐντίμων ἀγαθῶν, ὃ δὲ ἄξιοσ ὢν μεγάλων ἀξιοίη ἂν μικρῶν ἑαυτόν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 108:1)
  • ἐπεὶ οὖν περὶ τιμῆσ αἱρ́εσιν καὶ χρῆσιν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀγαθῶν τῶν ἐντίμων ἀρίστη ἐστὶ διάθεσισ ἡ μεγαλοψυχία, καὶ τοῦτ’ ἀποδίδομεν, καὶ οὐ περὶ τὰ χρήσιμα, τῷ μεγαλοψύχῳ, ἅμα δὲ καὶ ἡ μεσότησ αὕτη ἐπαινετωτάτη· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 110:3)
  • εἰ γάρ ἐστιν ζῆλοσ λύπη τισ ἐπὶ φαινομένῃ παρουσίᾳ ἀγαθῶν ἐντίμων καὶ ἐνδεχομένων αὐτῷ λαβεῖν περὶ τοὺσ ὁμοίουσ τῇ φύσει, οὐχ ὅτι ἄλλῳ ἀλλ’ ὅτι οὐχὶ καὶ αὑτῷ ἔστιν διὸ καὶ ἐπιεικέσ ἐστιν ὁ ζῆλοσ καὶ ἐπιεικῶν, τὸ δὲ φθονεῖν φαῦλον καὶ φαύλων· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 11 1:2)

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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