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εὐφυής?

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: euphyēs

Principal Part: εὐφυής εὐφυές

Structure: εὐφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: φυή

Sense

  1. well-grown, shapely, goodly
  2. of good natural disposition
  3. naturally suited or adapted
  4. of good natural parts, clever

Declension

Third 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

  • συνέσει μὲν γὰρ καὶ ἀγχινοίᾳ καὶ δριμύτητι πάμπολυ τῶν ἄλλων διέφερεν, καὶ τό τε περίεργον καὶ εὐμαθὲς καὶ μνημονικὸν καὶ πρὸς τὰ μαθήματα εὐφυές, πάντα ταῦτα εἰς ὑπερβολὴν ἑκασταχοῦ ὑπῆρχεν αὐτῷ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 4:2)
  • ἡμᾶς εὐφυὲς ἔχοντι τὴν φιλαυτίαν, δι ἣν αὐτὸς αὑτοῦ κόλαξ ἕκαστος ὢν πρῶτος καὶ μέγιστος οὐ χαλεπῶς προσίεται τὸν ἔξωθεν ὧν οἰέται καὶ βούλεται. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 1 3:1)
  • καὶ τὸ ἰατρικὸν πρὸς ἰατρικήν τὸ μὲν γὰρ τῷ ἔχειν ἰατρικὴν λέγεται ἰατρικὸν τὸ δὲ τῷ εὐφυὲς εἶναι πρὸς αὐτὴν τὸ δὲ τῷ ἔργον εἶναι τῆς ἰατρικῆς, ὁμοιοτρόπως δὲ καὶ ἄλλα ληψόμεθα λεγόμενα τούτοις, οὕτω δὲ καὶ τὸ ὀ`ν λέγεται πολλαχῶς μὲν ἀλλ ἅπαν πρὸς μίαν ἀρχήν: (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 4 9:1)
  • τρίτον δ ἔχειν ἴδιον οὗτος ὁ τόπος ἐδόκει τὸ πρὸς τὴν πρᾶξιν εὐφυές: (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 9:2)
  • καὶ γάρ τι πεδίον ἐντὸς ἐφαίνετο εὐφυὲς ἐς μάχην, ἐν ᾧ τοὺς ἐνόπλους ἔστησαν οἱ Καρχηδόνιοι κατὰ μετώπου, τοὺς δ ἀνόπλους αὐτοῖς ἐπέταξαν σὺν λίθοις ὀπίσω καὶ ξύλοις, ἑτέρους τε πολλοὺς διαθέντες ἐπὶ τῶν περικειμένων οἰκιῶν ἀνέμενον τοὺς ἐπερχομένους ἐσδραμεῖν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. well-grown

  2. of good natural disposition

  3. naturally suited or adapted

  4. of good natural parts

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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