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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

  • Εστι δέ κομιδῆ γελοῖοσ ὁ λόγοσ. οὐ γὰρ τῶν ἑαυτοῦ παθῶν ὁ λογισμὸσ ἐπικρατεῖν φαίνεται, ἀλλὰ τῶν σωματικῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 3:1)
  • καίτοι γελοῖόσ εἰμι σοὶ λέγων ταῦτα ὁσημέραι κατάγοντι αὐτούσ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 22:9)
  • ἢ γελοῖόσ γ̓ ἂν ἦν ξενίζων καὶ τοὺσ καιροὺσ τῶν προσαγορεύσεων ἐναλλάττων. (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 26:2)
  • ὡσ γὰρ ὁ λέγων ὅτι δεῖ κώπην ἐλαύνειν μαθόντα κυβερνᾶν δὲ καὶ μὴ μαθόντα γελοῖόσ ἐστιν, οὕτωσ ὁ μὲν τῶν ἄλλων ἀπολείπων τεχνῶν μάθησιν, ἀρετῆσ δ’ ἀναιρῶν τοὐναντίον ἐοίκε τοῖσ Σκύθαισ ποιεῖν. (Plutarch, An virtus doceri possit, section 33)
  • γελοῖοσ οὖν ὁ λέγων ὅτι τοξικὴ καὶ ὁπλιτικὴ καὶ τὸ σφενδονᾶν καὶ τὸ ἱππεύειν διδακτόν ἐστι, στρατηγικὴ δὲ καὶ τὸ στρατηγεῖν ὡσ ἔτυχε παραγίνεται καὶ οἷσ ἔτυχε μὴ μαθοῦσιν. (Plutarch, An virtus doceri possit, section 3 1:8)

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

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