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εὔψυχος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: eupsȳchos

Principal Part: εὔψυχος

Structure: εὐψυχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ψυχή

Sense

  1. of good courage, stout of heart
  2. , 2.43, 4.126, 2.11
  3. (in comparative) cooling

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἀλέκτωρ ἐμπεριπατῶν θηλείαις εὔψυχος καὶ τράγος ἡγούμενος αἰπολίου καὶ βασιλεὺς δημηγορῶν ἐν ἔθνει. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:67)
  • ἐπεί τοι ἀνέθρεψα ἐγὼ κύνα χαροπὴν οἱάν χαροπωτάτην, καὶ αὕτη ὠκεῖά τε ἦν καὶ φιλόπονος καὶ εὔψυχος καὶ εὔπους, ὥστε καὶ τέσσαρσιν ἤδη ποτὲ λαγῷς ἐφ᾿ ἡλικίας ἀντήρκεσεν. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 5 1:1)
  • οὐδεὶς ἀνὴρ εὔψυχος ἀξιοῖ λάθρᾳ κτεῖναι τὸν ἐχθρόν, ἀλλ ἰὼν κατὰ στόμα. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:15)
  • Ψηφίσματος Μέροσδημοτικός γ ὁ διατάττων ἑαυτὸν μέν, ἐπειδὴ ἀνδρεῖος καὶ εὔψυχός ἐστιν, ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις μένειν, οὓς δ ἂν οὗτος ἀποδοκιμάσῃ τῶν πολιτῶν, ἐπὶ τὰ ἔργα ἀπιέναι, καὶ ἐάν τι ἄλλο τούτῳ δόξῃ ἐπιτήδειον εἶναι, τοῦτο ποιεῖν. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 95:1)
  • ἔτι δὲ πρὸς τούτοισι τῶν τοιούτων ἀνθρώπων ἀνάγκη ἐρημοῦσθαι τὴν γῆν ὑπό τε πολεμίων καὶ ἀργίης, ὥστε καὶ εἴ τις φύσει πέφυκεν ἀνδρεῖος καὶ εὔψυχος, ἀποτρέπεσθαι τὴν γνώμην ὑπὸ τῶν νόμων. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xvi.11)

Synonyms

  1. of good courage

  2. cooling

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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