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κομψός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κομψός κομψή κομψόν

Structure: κομψ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kome/w

Sense

  1. well-dressed, a pretty fellow
  2. accomplished, elegant, exquisite, refined, dainty, clever, witty, clever, exquisite, acute, who refine overmuch, studied, affected
  3. elegantly, prettily, daintily
  4. better in health

Examples

  • οὐκ οἶδα ὅλωσ ὅ τι καὶ λέγουσιν οὐδὲ συνίημι τὴν σοφίαν αὐτῶν ὄρειοσ γὰρ ἔγωγε καὶ τὰ κομψὰ ταῦτα ῥημάτια, καὶ ἀστικὰ οὐ μεμάθηκα, ὦ Δίκη. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 11:5)
  • οἶδα ὅθεν σοι τὰ κομψὰ ταῦτα ἐρωτήματά ἐστιν, παρὰ τῶν καταράτων σοφιστῶν, οἳ μηδὲ προνοεῖν ἡμᾶσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων φασὶν ἐκεῖνοι γοῦν τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐρωτῶσιν ὑπ’ ἀσεβείασ, ἀποτρέποντεσ καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ θύειν καὶ εὔχεσθαι ὡσ εἰκαῖον ὄν· (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 6:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁρ́α μὴ ταῦτα μὲν ὑμῖν τὰ κομψὰ λῆροσ ᾖ καὶ παιδιὰ ἄλλωσ καὶ διατριβαὶ ἀργοῦσι καὶ ῥᾳθυμεῖν ἐθέλουσι τοῖσ νεανίσκοισ. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 32:3)
  • συμβούλῳ δὲ δὴ περὶ πολέμου καὶ εἰρήνησ λέγοντι καὶ ἰδιώτῃ τὸν περὶ ψυχῆσ τρέχοντι κίνδυνον ἐν δικασταῖσ τὰ κομψὰ καὶ θεατρικὰ καὶ μειρακιώδη ταῦτα οὐκ οἶδα ἥντινα δύναιτο ἂν παρασχεῖν ὠφέλειαν, μᾶλλον δὲ οἶδα ὅτι καὶ βλάβησ ἂν αἴτια γένοιτο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 12 2:2)
  • τρίβων γὰρ εἶ τὰ κομψὰ καὶ νοεῖν σοφόσ. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:18)

Synonyms

  1. better in health

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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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