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εὐγνώμων

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐγνώμων εὐγνώμονος

Structure: εὐγνωμων (Stem)

Etym.: gnw/mh

Sense

  1. of good feeling, kindhearted, considerate, reasonable, indulgent
  2. wise, prudent, thoughtful
  3. indulgently, fairly, candidly
  4. prudently

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

  • ὅτι μὲν οὖν εὐγνωμόνων ὁ Δαί̈μαχοσ ἀκροατῶν δεῖται δῆλόσ ἐστιν· (Plutarch, , chapter 12 5:2)
  • εἰή μὲν οὖν ἡμῖν ἐκκαθαιρόμενον λόγῳ τὸ μυθῶδεσ ὑπακοῦσαι καὶ λαβεῖν ἱστορίασ ὄψιν, ὅπου δ’ ἂν αὐθαδῶσ τοῦ πιθανοῦ περιφρονῇ καὶ μὴ δέχηται τὴν πρὸσ τὸ εἰκὸσ μῖξιν, εὐγνωμόνων ἀκροατῶν δεησόμεθα καὶ πρᾴωσ τὴν ἀρχαιολογίαν προσδεχομένων. (Plutarch, chapter 1 3:1)
  • ταῦτα ἐνθυμούμενοσ, εἴ τινοσ δέῃ τῶν ἡμετέρων, ἀποθέμενοσ τὰσ ἀπειλὰσ καὶ τὸ βασιλικὸν αὔχημα καταβαλὼν ἴθι πρὸσ τὴν βουλὴν καὶ δίδασκε καὶ πεῖθε τοὺσ συνέδρουσ, ὡσ οὐδενὸσ ἀτυχήσων οὔτε τῶν δικαίων οὔτε τῶν εὐγνωμόνων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 19, chapter 10 7:1)
  • ἐν ᾧ δὲ ἡμεῖσ ἐμέλλομεν καὶ παρετηροῦμεν ἀλλήλουσ, πότεροι τῶν εὐγνωμόνων ἄρξουσι λόγων, ἑτέρα τισ ἡμᾶσ ἀνάγκη κρείττων ἅπαντοσ ἀνθρωπίνου λογισμοῦ περιλαβοῦσα συνάγει· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 7 9:1)
  • οὐκ εὐγνωμόνων δ’ οὔτε ἐκείνων ἀεὶ τυγχάνοντεσ οὔτε τῶν ἄλλων τῶν πλησιοχώρων ἠναγκάζοντο τρόπον τινὰ τῇ ἐκείνων καταλύσει τὴν σφετέραν ἐπαύξειν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 4 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. wise

  2. prudently

Related

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

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