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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

  • καὶ μὴν δυεῖν ὠφελιμώτερον τὸ εὐτελέστερον καὶ χωρίσ τινοσ παρασκευῆσ τὴν ἐξ αὑτοῦ παρέχον ὠφέλειαν ἡ μὲν οὖν ἀπὸ τοῦ πυρὸσ χορηγίασ δεῖται καὶ ὕλησ· (Plutarch, Aquane an ignis sit utilior, chapter, section 5 1:2)
  • οὐκ οἶδα, εἴ τι λαμπρότατον ἄλλο πρᾶγμα τούτου εὐτελέστερον εἴρηται Πλάτωνι καὶ ἰδιωτικώτερον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 28 2:2)
  • καὶ ἥδιόν τε καὶ εὐτελέστερον καὶ ὑγιεινότερον διάξειν παυσάμενον. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 13 4:4)
  • ὅσῳ δ’ ἂν κουφότερον συσκευασώμεθα καὶ εὐτελέστερον, τοσούτῳ ἥδιον τὰσ ἐπιούσασ ἡμέρασ ἀριστήσομέν τε καὶ δειπνήσομεν καὶ καθευδήσομεν. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 43:4)
  • ἐμὲ δὲ μηδὲν ἄλλο ἢ ὥσπερ ξένον τρέφε, καὶ ἔτι εὐτελέστερον ἢ ξένον· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 51:3)

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

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