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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

  • κείνων ἀπ’ εὐδόξων ἀγώνων ἐν Νεμέᾳ κλεινοὶ βροτῶν οἳ τριέτει στεφάνῳ ξανθὰν ἐρέψωνται κόμαν. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 9 3:1)
  • οἱ δ’ εὐδαίμονεσ ἐν πᾶσι κλεινοὶ καὶ περίβλεπτοι βροτοῖσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 1:18)
  • ὅτι κλεινοὶ λέγονται παρὰ Κρησὶν οἱ ἐρώμενοι, σπουδὴ δὲ αὐτοῖσ παῖδασ ἁρπάζειν καὶ τοῖσ καλοῖσ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ἄδοξόν ἐστιν ἐραστοῦ μὴ τυχεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 201)
  • διδόασι δὲ τῷ ἁρπασθέντι στολὴν καὶ βοῦν καὶ ποτήριον ἣν καὶ πρεσβύτεροι γενόμενοι φέρουσιν, ἵνα δῆλοι ὦσι κλεινοὶ γενόμενοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 203)
  • ἀγασθέντων δ’ αὐτοὺσ ἁπάντων τοῦ γενναίου τῆσ προθυμίασ καὶ τὸ νικᾶν παρ’ ἓν τοῦτο τὸ ἔργον τιθεμένων, κλεινοὶ καὶ περιβόητοι καθ’ ὅλην τὴν πόλιν ὄντεσ ἐξῄεσαν ἀναλαβόντεσ τὰ ὅπλα σὺν εὐχαῖσ καὶ θυσίαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 15 4:1)

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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