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εὐτελής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐτελής εὐτελές

Structure: εὐτελη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: te/los

Sense

  1. easily paid for, cheap, more cheaply, at a cheap rate
  2. mean, paltry, worthless, paltry, requiring no exertion
  3. thrifty, frugal

Examples

  • ἢ ζῴῳ τινὶ εὐτελεῖ ὡμοίωσεν αὐτό, καταχρίσασ μίλτῳ καὶ φύκει ἐρυθήνασ χρόαν αὐτοῦ, καὶ πᾶσαν κηλῖδα τὴν ἐν αὐτῷ καταχρίσας (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 13:14)
  • "μύρον δὲ χρηστὸν μύρῳ εὐτελεῖ ἐπιχεόμενον ἐπιπολῆσ μένει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:35)
  • πρὸσ Ἀλέξανδρον ἐν εὐτελεῖ σινδονίσκῃ βασιλεὺσ ἀνηγορεύθη καὶ πορφύραν ἔλαβε, καὶ εἷσ ἦν τῶν ἑταίρων προσαγορευομένων· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 8 3:5)
  • τὸ δ’ ἀνάλογόν ἐστιν ἐὰν μήτε περὶ εὐόγκων αὐτοκαβδάλωσ λέγηται μήτε περὶ εὐτελῶν σεμνῶσ, μηδ’ ἐπὶ τῷ εὐτελεῖ ὀνόματι ἐπῇ κόσμοσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 7 2:1)
  • καὶ ὡσ ῥᾳδίωσ διεξήγαγον ἄτυφοι γενόμενοι καὶ ἐπαῖται καὶ διαίτῃ εὐτελεῖ καὶ λιτῇ δυνάμενοι χρήσασθαι. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 29)

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

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