Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

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

  • ἐγὼ δ’ εἰ μὲν δύναμιν λόγων ἐπιδείξασθαι βουλόμενοσ ἔπειτα Νιγρίνῳ γράψασ βιβλίον ἔπεμπον, εἰχόμην ἂν τῷ γελοίῳ γλαῦκασ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἐμπορευόμενοσ· (Lucian, Nigrinus, intro3)
  • ἦν δὲ καὶ ἐν τῷ γελοίῳ οὐκ ἀπίθανοσ φασὶ δὲ καὶ τελευτῆσαι αὐτὸν διὰ τὴν ἐν τῷ γελοίῳ παρρησίαν ὑπὸ Νικοκλέουσ τοῦ Κυπρίων βασιλέωσ φάρμακον πιόντα διὰ τὸ σκώπτειν αὐτοῦ τοὺσ υἱούσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 46 1:1)
  • ἦν δὲ δόξα Κάσσιον μὲν εἶναι δεινὸν ἐν τοῖσ πολεμικοῖσ, ὀργῇ δὲ τραχὺν καὶ φόβῳ μᾶλλον ἄρχοντα, πρὸσ δὲ τοὺσ συνήθεισ ὑγρότερον τῷ γελοίῳ καὶ φιλοσκώπτην· (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 29 1:2)
  • ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ἀπαντήσεσι ταῖσ παρὰ τὸν καιρὸν ἐχρῆτο καὶ τῷ γελοίῳ. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 11 4:3)

Related

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

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