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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

  • ὧν οὐ μνασθεῖσα πόσιν κτείνεισ, κλεινῶν συγγενέτειρ’ ἀδελφῶν. (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 23)
  • τῶν κλεινῶν; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, choral, anapests7)
  • ὦ σύγγον’, ἐλθὼν λαὸν εἰσ αὐτόχθονα κλεινῶν Ἀθηνῶν ‐ οἶσθα γὰρ θεᾶσ πόλιν ‐ λαβὼν βρέφοσ νεογνὸν ἐκ κοίλησ πέτρασ αὐτῷ σὺν ἄγγει σπαργάνοισί θ’ οἷσ ἔχει ἔνεγκε Δελφῶν τἀμὰ πρὸσ χρηστήρια, καὶ θὲσ πρὸσ αὐταῖσ εἰσόδοισ δόμων ἐμῶν. (Euripides, Ion, episode 2:8)
  • πόλεοσ ἐκπροκριθεῖσ’ ἐμᾶσ καλλιστεύματα Λοξίᾳ Καδμείων ἔμολον γᾶν, κλεινῶν Ἀγηνοριδᾶν ὁμογενεῖσ ἐπὶ Λαί̈ου πεμφθεῖσ’ ἐνθάδε πύργουσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • οὗτόσ τοι Ῥώμησ ὁ μέγασ, ξένε, πατρίδοσ ἀστήρ, Μάρκελλοσ κλεινῶν Κλαύδιοσ ἐκ πατέρων. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 30 5:1)

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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