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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 ἐμνήσθην τῆσ προφητείασ Ἀμώσ, καθὼσ εἶπε. στραφήσονται αἱ ἑορταὶ ὑμῶν εἰσ πένθοσ καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ εὐφροσύναι ὑμῶν εἰσ θρῆνον, (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 2:6)
  • σέθεν δ’ ἕκατι καὶ νῦν Μεταπόντιον εὐ‐ γυίων [κατέχ]ουσι νέων κῶμοί τε καὶ εὐφροσύναι θεότιμον ἄστυ· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 11 1:3)
  • Εἰδέναι δὲ χρὴ τοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ, ὅτι ἐξ οὐδενὸσ ἡμῖν αἱ ἡδοναὶ γίνονται καὶ αἱ εὐφροσύναι καὶ γέλωτεσ καὶ παιδιαὶ ἢ ἐντεῦθεν, καὶ λῦπαι καὶ ἀνίαι καὶ υσφροσύναι καὶ κλαυθμοί. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.1)

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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