Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

καίριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καίριος καίριᾱ καίριον

Structure: καιρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kairo/s

Sense

  1. in or at the right place, a vital part, mortally
  2. in season, seasonable, timely, opportune, timely circumstances, opportunities
  3. lasting but for a season
  4. in season, seasonably

Examples

  • καίτοι τοῦτο μὲν ἴσωσ εἰρηνικώτερόν ἐστιν καὶ τὸ τραῦμα ἧττον καίριον, εἰ αὐτὸσ ἴδοισ· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 1:6)
  • σμικρὴ αἰτίη ἄκεσισ γίνεται, ἢν μή τι περὶ τόπον καίριον πάθῃ. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, PARAGGELIAI, xiv.7)
  • ἄναξ, σέ τ’ εἰκόσ, εἴ τι καίριον λέγει, μαθεῖν, σέ τ’ αὖ τοῦδ’· (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 2:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἑστάτω μοι καὶ δέοσ τι καίριον, καὶ μὴ δοκῶμεν δρῶντεσ ἃν ἡδώμεθα οὐκ ἀντιτίσειν αὖθισ ἂν λυπώμεθα. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:24)
  • ἀλλ’ αἰσχρὰ μέντοι σοῦ γέ μ’ ἐνδεέστερον ξένῳ φανῆναι πρὸσ τὸ καίριον πονεῖν. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode4)
  • οὐ μὴ ὑπακούσῃ ὁ κακὸσ αὐτῇ, οὐδὲ μὴ εἴπῃ καίριόν τι καὶ καλὸν τῷ κοινῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 15:24)

Synonyms

  1. in season

  2. lasting but for a season

  3. in season

Related

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

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