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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

  • ὡσ φοῖνιξ ἀνυψώθην ἐν αἰγιαλοῖσ καὶ ὡσ φυτὰ ρόδου ἐν Ἱεριχώ, ὡσ ἐλαία εὐπρεπὴσ ἐν πεδίῳ, καὶ ἀνυψώθην ὡσ πλάτανοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 24:14)
  • μέλλησισ δὲ προμηθὴσ δειλία εὐπρεπήσ, τὸ δὲ σῶφρον πρόσχημα τοῦ ἀνάνδρου, καὶ τὸ εἰσ ἅπαν ξυνετὸν ἐπὶ πᾶν ἀργόν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 178)
  • ἡ ἑτέρα δὲ μάλα εὐπρόσωποσ καὶ τὸ σχῆμα εὐπρεπὴσ καὶ κόσμιοσ τὴν ἀναβολήν. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 6:6)
  • ἔπειτα πολιόσ εἰμι καὶ πώγων’ ἔχω, σὺ δ’ εὐπρόσωποσ λευκὸσ ἐξυρημένοσ γυναικόφωνοσ ἁπαλὸσ εὐπρεπὴσ ἰδεῖν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 1:29)
  • ὡσ εὐπρεπὴσ φανεῖ πάνυ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 2:41)

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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