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εὐήθης

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐήθης εὐήθες

Structure: εὐηθη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: h)=qos

Sense

  1. good-hearted, open-hearted, simpleminded, guileless
  2. simple, silly, a simpleton

Examples

  • Ἅπαντα μὲν οὖν πονηρὰ τὰ εἴδεά ἐστι· ὕδρωψ γὰρ πάντων τῶν νοσημάτων κακόν· ἀλλὰ τουτέων λευκοφλεγματίησ μὲν εὐηθέστεροσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 34)
  • ὅταν δ’ ἐξ αὑτοῦ τι προφέρηται καί τι τῶν ἰδίων ἐπινοημάτων ἐξηγῆται, παρὰ πολὺ φαίνεται τοῖσ ἐπιστήμοσιν εὐηθέστεροσ αὑτοῦ καὶ νωθρότεροσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 12, chapter 25c 3:3)
  • πολὺ δ’ εὐηθέστερόσ ἐστι καὶ γελοιότεροσ ὁ Ἐρασίστρατοσ ἢ μὴ νοῶν, ὅπωσ εἴρηται πρὸσ τῶν παλαιῶν ἡ πέψισ ἑψήσει παραπλήσιοσ ὑπάρχειν, ἢ ἑκὼν σοφιζόμενοσ ἑαυτόν. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 746)

Synonyms

  1. simple

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

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