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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

  • οἴμοι τοῦ καταφθιμένου τοῦ τε ζῶντοσ ἀλάτα, ὅσ που γᾶν ἄλλαν κατέχει, μέλεοσ ἀλαί‐ νων ποτὶ θῆσσαν ἑστίαν, τοῦ κλεινοῦ πατρὸσ ἐκφύσ. (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 36)
  • ἂν δ’ ἀφίκῃ κλεινοῦ Βυζαντίου εἰσ πόλιν ἁγνήν, ὡραίου φάγε μοι τέμαχοσ πάλιν ἐστὶ γὰρ ἐσθλὸν καὶ μαλακόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 85 2:4)
  • τοῦ σοὶ καὶ νεαρὸν χειρῶν σθένοσ εἰή ἀρέσθαι, Μάρκελλε, κλεινοῦ τ’ αἶνον ἴσον βιότου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 545 1:1)
  • μὴ σύ γε, μηδ’ εἴ τοι πολὺ φέρτεροσ εἴδεται ὄσσων ἀμφοτέρων, κλεινοῦ κοῦρε Μεγιστοκλέουσ, κἢν στίλβῃ Χαρίτεσσι λελουμένοσ, ἀμφιδονοίησ τὸν καλὸν οὐ γὰρ ὁ παῖσ ἤπιοσ οὐδ’ ἄκακοσ, ἀλλὰ μέλων πολλοῖσι, καὶ οὐκ ἀδίδακτοσ ἐρώτων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1221)
  • κλεινοῦ δ’ εἰμὶ γένουσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3075)

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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