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

  • καὶ κοινὸν ὁρισάμενοι περὶ τούτων θεσμὸν ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν παροικίαν αὐτῶν εἰσ γενεάσ, τὰσ προειρημένασ ἡμέρασ ἄγειν ἔστησαν εὐφροσύνουσ, οὐ πότου χάριν καὶ λιχνείασ, σωτηρίασ δὲ τῆσ διὰ Θεὸν γενομένησ αὐτοῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 6:36)
  • καταχθέντεσ δὲ μετ̓ εἰρήνησ ἐν ταῖσ πρεπούσαισ ἐξομολογήσεσιν, ὡσαύτωσ κἀκεῖ ἔστησαν καὶ ταύτασ ἄγειν τὰσ ἡμέρασ ἐπὶ τὸν τῆσ παροικίασ αὐτῶν χρόνον εὐφροσύνουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 7:19)

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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