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εὐπρεπής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐπρεπής εὐπρεπές

Structure: εὐπρεπη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pre/pw

Sense

  1. well-looking, goodly, comely, fair
  2. decent, seemly, fitting, becoming, most glorious
  3. specious, plausible, pretence

Examples

  • τοῖσ εὐπρεπέσιν δ’ ἀκολουθοῦντεσ καὶ μειρακίοισ οἱ φαυλότεροι τοιάδ’ ἐροῦσιν· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, pnigos8)
  • Βιβλίον πᾶσ ἂν ἥδιον ἀναγνῴη καὶ ῥᾷον τὸ εὐσημοτέροισ γράμμασι γεγραμμένον οὐκοῦν καὶ λόγουσ πᾶσ ἄν τισ ῥᾷον ἀκούσειε τοὺσ εὐσχήμοσιν ἅμα καὶ εὐπρεπέσιν ὀνόμασι σεσημασμένουσ. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. well-looking

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

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