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εὔκαιρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔκαιρος εὔκαιρον

Structure: εὐκαιρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. well-timed, in season, seasonable, in season, seasonably, opportunely

Examples

  • καὶ ἰδοὺ γὰρ ἤδη ἐκφυγόντεσ τὸν ἥλιον ἐν τῷ συνηρεφεῖ ἐσμεν, καὶ καθέδρα μάλα ἡδεῖα καὶ εὔκαιροσ ἐπὶ ψυχροῦ τοῦ λίθου. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 18:4)
  • οἱᾶ περὶ τούτου φησὶ τῶν κωμικῶν τισ πρὸσ τὸν ἐπὶ τῷ ἀώρῳ λυπούμενον θανάτῳ εἶτ’ εἰ μὲν ᾕδεισ ὅττι τοῦτον τὸν βίον, ὃν οὐκ ἐβίωσε, ζῶν διευτύχησεν ἄν, ὁ θάνατοσ οὐκ εὔκαιροσ· (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 16 1:2)
  • σοφὸν γὰρ εὔκαιροσ σιγὴ καὶ παντὸσ λόγου κρεῖττον. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 14 16:1)
  • τὸ μὲν οὖν φάναι βασιλείασ ἐπιθυμεῖν, εὔκαιροσ εἰσ νέουσ αἰτία, καὶ τὸ προστιθέναι τὴν τῆσ ἀθλίασ μητρόσ, ἱκανὸν ἐκ τῆσ πρώτησ τὴν νῦν ἀτυχίαν ἐξεργάζεσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 126:1)

Synonyms

  1. well-timed

Related

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

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