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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

  • ἀλλὰ δίαιταν ἣν ἔχουσ1’ οἱ κόλακεσ πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ λέξομεν ἀλλ’ ἀκούσαθ’, ὡσ ἐσμὲν ἅπαντα κομψοὶ ἄνδρεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 302)
  • "ἐν πολλοῖσ γάρ εἰσι κομψοί, τὸ δὲ ψυχρὸν οὐ πανταχοῦ καὶ περίεργον ἐκπεφεύγασιν. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 12 6:4)
  • ὦ τὰ μὲν κομψοί, τὰ δὲ φαυλότεροι φαυλίων μήλων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 232)
  • κομψοὶ γὰρ δή τινεσ αὖ τοῦτον τὸν λόγον ἐπιχειροῦσι μηνύειν ἡμῖν, οἷσ δεῖ χάριν ἔχειν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 256:2)
  • "ταύτῃ γε κομψοὶ καὶ οἱ μυθογράφοι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 6:12)

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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