Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • διότι δὲ τοὺσ ὗσ ἐν μὲν τῇσι ἄλλῃσι ὁρτῇσι ἀπεστυγήκασι ἐν δὲ ταύτῃ θύουσι, ἔστι μὲν λόγοσ περὶ αὐτοῦ ὑπ’ Αἰγυπτίων λεγόμενοσ, ἐμοὶ μέντοι ἐπισταμένῳ οὐκ εὐπρεπέστεροσ ἐστὶ λέγεσθαι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 47 3:2)

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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