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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 γὰρ ἀληθινῶσ καὶ βεβαίωσ ἀγαθοῖσ τιμή τε καλλίστη τὸ τιμῆσαί τινα τῶν ἀξίων, καὶ κόσμοσ εὐπρεπέστατοσ τὸ ἐπικοσμῆσαι, περιουσίᾳ δόξησ καὶ ἀφθονίᾳ γιγνόμενον. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 13 6:2)

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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