Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

εὐσύνετος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐσύνετος εὐσύνετη εὐσύνετον

Structure: εὐσυνετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. quick of apprehension, with intelligence
  2. easily understood

Examples

  • ταὐτὸ γὰρ σύνεσισ καὶ εὐσυνεσία καὶ συνετοὶ καὶ εὐσύνετοι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 77:1)
  • καὶ ἐντεῦθεν ἐλήλυθε τοὔνομα ἡ σύνεσισ, καθ’ ἣν εὐσύνετοι, ἐκ τῆσ ἐν τῷ μανθάνειν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 78:2)

Synonyms

  1. easily understood

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

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