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γενναῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γενναῖος γενναῖη γενναῖον

Structure: γενναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ge/nna

Sense

  1. suitable to one's birth or descent, fits, my nobility
  2. high-born, noble by birth, well-bred
  3. noble in mind, high-minded, noble
  4. good of their kind, excellent, notable, genuine, intense
  5. nobly

Examples

  • τὸ γὰρ τῶν ἀγεννῶν γάλα οὐ σύμφυλον ταῖσ γενναίαισ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 30 1:3)
  • θάψαι γὰρ ὅσουσ ἐβούλοντο Περσῶν ἔδωκεν, ἐσθῆτι καὶ κόσμῳ χρησαμέναισ ἐκ τῶν λαφύρων, θεραπείασ τε καὶ τιμῆσ ἦν εἶχον οὐδ’ ὁτιοῦν ἀφεῖλε, συντάξεισ δὲ καὶ μείζονασ ἐκαρποῦντο τῶν προτέρων, ἡ δὲ καλλίστη καὶ βασιλικωτάτη χάρισ ἦν παρ’ αὐτοῦ γυναιξὶ γενναίαισ γενομέναισ αἰχμαλώτοισ καὶ σώφροσι μήτε ἀκοῦσαι τι μήτε ὑπονοῆσαι μήτε προσδοκῆσαι τῶν αἰσχρῶν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ οὐκ ἐν στρατοπέδῳ πολεμίων, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἱεροῖσ καὶ ἁγίοισ υλαττομένασ φυλαττομένασ παρθενῶσιν ἀπόρρητον ἔχειν καὶ ἀόρατον ἑτέροισ δίαιταν. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 21 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. high-born

  2. noble in mind

  3. nobly

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

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