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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

  • ὅ τε πίνοσ ὁ τῆσ ἀρχαιότητοσ ἠρέμα αὐτῇ καὶ λεληθότωσ ἐπιτρέχει ἱλαρόν τέ τι καὶ τεθηλὸσ καὶ μεστὸν ὡρ́ασ ἄνθοσ ἀναδίδωσι, καὶ ὥσ2περ ἀπὸ τῶν εὐωδεστάτων λειμώνων αὖρά τισ ἡδεῖα ἐξ αὐτῆσ φέρεται, καὶ οὔτε τὸ λιγυρὸν ἐοίκεν ἐμφαίνειν λάλον οὔτε τὸ κομψὸν θεατρικόν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 2 4:1)
  • τὸ πρᾶγμα κομψὸν καὶ σφόδρ’ ἐκ τοῦ σοῦ τρόπου· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics31)
  • πρῶτον μὲν εἶναι κομψὸν ἐν συνουσίᾳ, ἐπαί̈ονθ’ ὁποῖόσ ἐστι τῶν ῥυθμῶν κατ’ ἐνόπλιον, χὠποῖοσ αὖ κατὰ δάκτυλον. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene22)
  • τὴν δ’ ἐξαίρεσιν, ὦ καλέ μου Οὐλπιανέ, Διονύσιοσ ὁ κωμῳδιοποιοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ὁμωνύμοισ τῷ δράματι οὕτωσ εἴρηκε ποιήσασ τινὰ μάγειρον πρὸσ τοὺσ μαθητὰσ διαλεγόμενον ἄγε δὴ Δρόμων νῦν, εἴ τι κομψὸν ἢ σοφὸν ἢ γλαφυρὸν οἶσθα τῶν σεαυτοῦ πραγμάτων, φανερὸν ποίησον τοῦτο τῷ διδασκάλῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 271)
  • καθάπερ οἱ πίνοντεσ, ὅταν παύσωνται διψῶντεσ, τότε τὰ τορεύματα τῶν ἐκπωμάτων ὑποθεωροῦσι καὶ στρέφουσιν, οὕτωσ ἐμπλησθέντι δογμάτων καὶ ἀναπνεύσαντι δοτέον τὴν λέξιν εἴ τι κομψὸν ἔχει καὶ περιττὸν ἐπισκοπεῖν. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 9 3:1)

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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