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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

  • "πλὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τοῦτο κλεινὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ διὰ στόματοσ ἦν ἅπασιν, ὁ φιλόσοφοσ διὰ τὴν παρρησίαν καὶ τὴν ἄγαν ἐλευθερίαν ἐξελαθείσ, καὶ προσήλαυνε κατὰ τοῦτο τῷ Μουσωνίῳ καὶ Δίωνι καὶ Ἐπικτήτῳ καὶ εἴ τισ ἄλλοσ ἐν περιστάσει τοιαύτῃ ἐγένετο. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:43)
  • καὶ κλεινὸν αὐτὸν καὶ ἀοίδιμον ἐποίουν κατακοσμοῦσα καὶ περιστέλλουσα. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 27:6)
  • ὕφαινέ νυν ἐν ταῖσ πολυηράτοισ τι κλεινὸν ὀλβίαισ Ἀθάναισ, εὐαίνετε Κηϊα μέριμνα. (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 19 1:2)
  • τευχεσφόρον μὲν λαὸν ἐκτείνοντ’ ἄνω Ἰσμήνιον πρὸσ ὄχθον, ὡσ μὲν ἦν λόγοσ, αὐτόν τ’ ἄνακτα, παῖδα κλεινὸν Αἰγέωσ, καὶ τοὺσ σὺν αὐτῷ, δεξιὸν τεταγμένουσ κέρασ, παλαιᾶσ Κεκροπίασ <τ’> οἰκήτορασ, ἴσουσ ἀριθμόν· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode15)
  • θέλει τι κλεινὸν οὗτοσ ὁ στολμόσ, πάτερ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, antistrophe 1 1:18)

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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