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καρτερός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καρτερός καρτερή καρτερόν

Structure: καρτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ka/rtos

Sense

  1. strong, staunch, stout, sturdy;, strong, the strongest
  2. possessed of, lord or master of
  3. steadfast, patient, obstinate
  4. strong, mighty, potent, of might, strongly contested, desperate, the extremity of, by force
  5. strong
  6. strongly, soundly

Examples

  • μέμψῃ δὲ οὐδέν, ἢν εὐῆρεσ καὶ καρτερόν μοι ἐρετμὸν δῷσ μόνον. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 19:9)
  • τὸ γὰρ ἰσχύν τε ἅμα καὶ ὑγρότητα τῶν μελῶν ἐπιτηδεύειν ὁμοίωσ παράδοξον εἶναί μοι δοκεῖ ὡσ εἴ τισ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ καὶ Ἡρακλέουσ τὸ καρτερὸν καὶ Ἀφροδίτησ τὸ ἁβρὸν δεικνύοι. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 73:2)
  • οἱ δὲ δὴ κατὰ ζυγὰ ἐξελιγμοὶ γίγνονται ἐπειδὰν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀποτομῶν βουληθῇ τισ τὰ κέρατα καθιστάναι, τὰσ δὲ ἀποτομὰσ ἐπὶ τῶν κεράτων, καὶ τὸ μέσον τῆσ πάσησ φάλαγγοσ ἀποτελέσαι καρτερόν· (Arrian, chapter 23 7:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὖν ἐγὼ μὲν πᾶσι Πελοποννησίοισ ἀεὶ πολεμήσω καὶ ταράξω πανταχῇ καὶ ναυσὶ καὶ πεζοῖσι κατὰ τὸ καρτερόν. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, strophe 2 1:48)
  • ἀλλ’ ἕτερον αὖ ζήτει τι τῶν βαρυστάθμων, ὅ τι σοι καθέλξει, καρτερόν τε καὶ μέγα. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, trochees 1:22)

Synonyms

  1. strong

  2. possessed of

  3. steadfast

  4. strong

  5. strongly

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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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