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εὔμορφος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔμορφος εὔμορφον

Structure: εὐμορφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: morfh/

Sense

  1. fair of form, comely, goodly

Examples

  • μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο θεόσ ἐστιν εὔμορφοσ καὶ μειράκιον ὡραῖον, ἐρωτική τισ παιδιά· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 24:1)
  • ἔνδον δὲ ὁ Πλοῦτοσ αὐτὸσ καθήσθω χρυσοῦσ ὅλοσ, ὡσ δοκεῖ, πάνυ εὔμορφοσ καὶ ἐπέραστοσ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 42:4)
  • Οὔτε σὺ οὔτε ἄλλοσ εὔμορφοσ· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 4:6)
  • "οὐκ εὔμορφοσ; (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 5 2:1)
  • καὶ πάλιν πᾶσα δ’ εὔμορφοσ γυνὴ ἐρῶσα φοιτᾷ τηγάνῳ τε συντρυφᾷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1412)

Synonyms

  1. fair of form

Related

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

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