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φιλόπονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φιλόπονος φιλόπονον

Structure: φιλοπον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. loving labour, laborious, industrious, diligent, diligent
  2. toilsome, laborious

Examples

  • τίσ ἂν δῆτά μοι, τίσ ἂν φιλοπόνων ἁλιαδᾶν ἔχων ἀύ̈πνουσ ἄγρασ, ἢ τίσ Ὀλυμπιάδων θεᾶν ἢ ῥυτῶν Βοσπορίων ποταμῶν, τὸν ὠμόθυμον εἴ ποθι πλαζόμενον λεύσσων ἀπύοι; (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, strophe 11)
  • καὶ τῶν κυνῶν τῶν εὐφυεστάτων, φιλοπόνων τε οὐσῶν καὶ ἐπιθετικῶν τοῖσ θηρίοισ, τὰσ μὲν καλῶσ ἀχθείσασ ἀρίστασ γίγνεσθαι πρὸσ τὰσ θήρασ καὶ χρησιμωτάτασ, ἀναγώγουσ δὲ γιγνομένασ ματαίουσ τε καὶ μανιώδεισ καὶ δυσπειθεστάτασ. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 1 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. toilsome

Related

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

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