Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὐφρόσυνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐφρόσυνος εὐφρόσυνη εὐφρόσυνον

Structure: εὐφροσυν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for eu)/frwn

Sense

  1. in good cheer

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐν εὐφροσύναισ οὐ προσμίγνυται λύπη, τελευταῖα δὲ χαρὰ εἰσ πένθοσ ἔρχεται. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 14:13)
  • ἡμεῖσ μὲν οὖν, ὡσ τὸ εἰκόσ, ἐν εὐφροσύναισ καὶ θυμηδίαισ ἦμεν, ἀλλήλουσ ἀπειληφότεσ· (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 5:4)
  • ἀίεισ οὐχ ὁσίαν ὕβριν ἐσ τὸν Βρόμιον, τὸν Σεμέλασ, τὸν παρὰ καλλι‐ στεφάνοισ εὐφροσύναισ δαί‐ μονα πρῶτον μακάρων; (Euripides, choral, strophe 12)
  • ἁδύ τι θαρσαλέαισ τὸν μακρὸν τείνειν βίον ἐλπίσι, φαναῖσ θυμὸν ἀλδαίνουσαν ἐν εὐφροσύναισ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • καὶ ταῦτα οὐ μόνον πράττων ἔχαιρεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐνθυμούμενοσ ἠγάλλετο ὅτι αὐτὸσ μὲν ἐν μέσαισ ταῖσ εὐφροσύναισ ἀναστρέφοιτο, τὸν δὲ βάρβαρον ἑώρα, εἰ μέλλοι ἀλύπωσ βιώσεσθαι, συνελκυστέον αὐτῷ ταῖσ ἀπὸ περάτων τῆσ γῆσ τὰ τέρψοντα. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 9 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. in good cheer

Related

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

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