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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

  • καὶ μὴν θαλάμασ τάσδ’ ἐσορῶ δὴ Καπανέωσ ἤδη τύμβον θ’ ἱερὸν μελάθρων τ’ ἐκτὸσ Θησέωσ ἀναθήματα νεκροῖσ, κλεινήν τ’ ἄλοχον τοῦ καπφθιμένου τοῦδε κεραυνῷ πέλασ Εὐάδνην, ἣν Ἶφισ ἄναξ παῖδα φυτεύει. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, anapests1)
  • κτείνασ δὲ τὸν κρατοῦντ’ ἐν Ἰλιάδι χθονὶ Πρίαμον, ἑλών τε Δαρδάνου κλεινὴν πόλιν, ἀφίκετ’ ἐσ τόδ’ Ἄργοσ, ὑψηλῶν δ’ ἐπὶ ναῶν ἔθηκε σκῦλα πλεῖστα βαρβάρων. (Euripides, episode 1:2)
  • ἦλθεσ γάρ, ὦ ξέν’, Ἰλίου κλεινὴν πόλιν; (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:42)
  • τίκτω δὲ παῖδασ παιδὶ δύο μὲν ἄρσενασ, Ἐτεοκλέα κλεινήν τε Πολυνείκουσ βίαν, κόρασ τε δισσάσ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 4:1)
  • ᾧ κλεινὴν ἤγαγε βουθυσίην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 13 1:5)

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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