Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κλεινός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλεινός κλεινή κλεινόν

Structure: κλειν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kle/os

Sense

  1. famous, renowned, illustrious, well known

Examples

  • τοῦ δ’ ἔφυν ἐγώ τῆσ Τυνδαρείασ θυγατρὸσ Ἰφιγένεια παῖσ, ἣν ἀμφὶ δίναισ ἃσ θάμ’ Εὔριποσ πυκναῖσ αὔραισ ἑλίσσων κυανέαν ἅλα στρέφει, ἔσφαξεν Ἑλένησ οὕνεχ’, ὡσ δοκεῖ, πατὴρ Ἀρτέμιδι κλειναῖσ ἐν πτυχαῖσιν Αὐλίδοσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 1:3)
  • τὸν δ’ ἔλοπ’ ἔσθε μάλιστα Συρακούσαισ ἐνὶ κλειναῖσ, τόν γε κρατιστεύονθ’. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 57 1:1)
  • ἁ δ’ ἀρετὰ κλειναῖσ ἀοιδαῖσ χρονία τελέθει. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 3 35:1)

Synonyms

  1. famous

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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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