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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

  • μένειν δὲ μηδὲ τὴν πεζικὴν τάξιν ἐν χώρᾳ ἔτι, ἀλλὰ προχωρεῖν θᾶττον ἢ βάδην, ὡσ εἴ τι καρτερώτερον ἀπαντῴη ἀπὸ τῶν πολεμίων, αὖθισ εἶναι προβολὴν πρὸ τῶν ἱππέων. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 39:2)
  • ὁ γὰρ ὀιστὸσ αὐτοῖσιν ὀλίγον ἀποδέων τριπήχεοσ, οὐδέ τι ἀντέχει τοξευθὲν πρὸσ Ἰνδοῦ ἀνδρὸσ τοξικοῦ, οὔτε ἀσπὶσ οὔτε θώρηξ οὔτε εἴ τι καρτερώτερον ἐγένετο. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 16 7:1)
  • τί ἂν οὖν βασιλέωσ ἐν ἀνθρώποισ εἰή καρτερώτερον ἄλλο θεοῦ; (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 7:16)
  • λέγεισ σύ, ἔφη, ὦ πάτερ, ὡσ καὶ καρτερώτερον δεῖ πρὸσ πάντα τὸν ἄρχοντα τῶν ἀρχομένων εἶναι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 6 30:5)
  • οἱ δέ, ὑπὲρ τὴν σφετέραν ἀξίωσιν ἀδοκήτου τῆσ χάριτοσ αὐτοῖσ γενομένησ, ἐξεθείαζον αὐτόν, καὶ στῖφοσ ἄλλο καρτερώτερον τοῦ δήμου τόδε τῷ Καίσαρι προσγεγένητο δι’ ἑνὸσ πολιτεύματοσ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 2 6:5)

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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