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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

  • καὶ ἀποστρέψω πάσασ τὰσ εὐφροσύνασ αὐτῆσ, ἑορτὰσ αὐτῆσ καὶ τὰσ νουμηνίασ αὐτῆσ καὶ τὰ σάββατα αὐτῆσ καὶ πάσασ τὰσ πανηγύρεισ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 2:13)
  • "γενόμενοσ ἔργα δὲ Κυπρογενοῦσ νῦν μοι φίλα καὶ Διονύσου καὶ Μουσέων, ἃ τίθησ’ ἀνδράσιν εὐφροσύνασ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 511)
  • τὸ δὲ περὶ τοῦ πρὸσ εὐπαθείασ ἐπαίρεσθαι ναυτῶν δίκην ἀφροδίσια ἀγόντων καὶ μέγα φρονεῖν ὅτι νοσῶν νόσον ἀσκίτην τινὰσ ἑστιάσεισ φίλων συνῆγε καὶ οὐκ ἐφθόνει τῆσ προσαγωγῆσ τοῦ ὑγροῦ τῷ ὕδρωπι καὶ τῶν ἐσχάτων Νεοκλέουσ λόγων μεμνημένοσ ἐτήκετο τῇ μετὰ δακρύων ἰδιοτρόπῳ ἡδονῇ ταῦτ’ οὐδεὶσ ἂν ὑγιαινόντων εὐφροσύνασ ἀληθεῖσ ἢ χαρὰσ ὀνομάσειεν· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 163)
  • "εἰ δ’ οὖν ταῦτα φήσει τισ εὐφροσύνασ καὶ χαράσ, σκόπει τὰσ ὑπερβολὰσ τῶν ἡδονῶν ἐκείνων ἡμετέραισ βουλαῖσ Σπάρτη μὲν ἐκείρατο δόξαν καί οὗτόσ τοι Ῥώμησ ὁ μέγασ, ξένε, πατρίδοσ ἀστήρ καί δίζω, ἤ σε θεὸν μαντεύσομαι ἢ ἄνθρωπον. (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 165)
  • καί, ἔργα δὲ Κυπρογενοῦσ νῦν μοι φίλα καὶ Διονύσου καὶ Μουσέων, ἃ τίθησ’ ἀνδράσιν εὐφροσύνασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 31 3:4)

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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