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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

  • πέφυκε μὲν γὰρ λίθοσ ἐν αὐτῇ ἄφθονοσ, ἐξ οὗ κάλλιστοι μὲν ναοί, κάλλιστοι δὲ βωμοὶ γίγνονται, εὐπρεπέστατα δὲ θεοῖσ ἀγάλματα· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 6:2)
  • ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ ὑπ’ ἀβελτερίασ ᾤμην δεῖν τἀληθῆ λέγειν περὶ ἑκάστου τοῦ ἐγκωμιαζομένου, καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ὑπάρχειν, ἐξ αὐτῶν δὲ τούτων τὰ κάλλιστα ἐκλεγομένουσ ὡσ εὐπρεπέστατα τιθέναι· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 219:4)
  • καὶ ἐὰν αὖ μηδέτερον ἰδεῖν δυνώμεθα, τὸν γοῦν λόγον ὅπῃπερ ἂν οἱοῖ́ τε ὦμεν εὐπρεπέστατα διωσόμεθα οὕτωσ ἀμφοῖν ἅμα. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 210:1)

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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