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γέλοιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γέλοιος

Structure: γελοι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gela/w

Sense

  1. causing laughter, laughable, jests
  2. causing laughter, ridiculous

Examples

  • πῶσ οὖν, ἴσωσ εἴποιεν ἄν τινεσ, εἰ τῶν παθῶν ὁ λογισμὸσ κρατεῖ, λήθησ καὶ ἀγνοίασ οὐ δεσπόζει̣ γελοῖον ἐπιχειροῦντεσ λέγειν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:5)
  • ἐπεὶ καὶ γελοῖον. καὶ οὐ μόνον τῶν ἀλγηδόνων ἐπιδείκνυμι κεκρατηκέναι τὸν λογισμόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἡδονῶν κρατεῖν, καὶ μηδὲν αὐταῖσ ὑπείκειν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 6:35)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἂν εἰή γελοῖον τῆσ μὲν οἰκίασ θυρωροὺσ καθιστάναι, τὰ ὦτα δὲ καὶ τὴν διάνοιαν ἀνεῳγμένα ἐᾶν. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 30:3)
  • ἐκεῖνο δὲ γελοῖον ἐποίει, κρηπῖδασ γὰρ καλλίστασ ἐωνεῖτο νεοτμήτουσ ἀεί, καὶ τὴν πλείστην πραγματείαν περὶ ταύτασ εἶχεν, ὡσ καλλίστοισ ὑποδήμασι κεκοσμημένα εἰή αὐτῷ τὰ ξύλα. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 6:3)
  • καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ὡσ ἀληθῶσ γελοῖον λέγεισ, τὸ φιλοσοφοῦντασ δικάζεσθαι πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ, δέον, εἰ καί τι μέγα εἰή, κατ’ εἰρήνην ἐν σφίσι διαλύεσθαι τὰ ἐγκλήματα. (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 1:5)

Related

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

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