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γνήσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γνήσιος

Structure: γνησι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ge/nos

Sense

  1. of or belonging to the race, lawfully begotten, legitimate, noble, lawful, true sons, lawfully, really, truly

Examples

  • τοῖσ τῶν Περσῶν βασιλεῦσιν αἱ γνήσιαι γυναῖκεσ παρακάθηνται δειπνοῦσι καὶ συνεστιῶνται· (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 162)
  • ὅσαι δὲ τῶν κυνῶν τὰ ἴχνη τὰ μὲν εὐναῖα ἀγνοοῦσι, τὰ δὲ δρομαῖα ταχὺ διατρέχουσιν, οὐκ εἰσὶ γνήσιαι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 10:1)

Related

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

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