Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • κομψόσ γ’ ὁ κῆρυξ καὶ παρεργάτησ λόγων. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 2:1)
  • τουτουμενὶ Φορμίσιοσ Μεγαίνετόσ θ’ ὁ Μανῆσ, σαλπιγγολογχυπηνάδαι, σαρκασμοπιτυοκάμπται, οὑμοὶ δὲ Κλειτοφῶν τε καὶ Θηραμένησ ὁ κομψόσ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Epirrheme 1:19)
  • ’εἰπέ μοι, ἐπὶ τῷ κομᾷσ καὶ κομψὸσ εἶναι προσποιεῖ, κωμῳδολοιχῶν περὶ τὸν εὖ πράττοντ’ ἀεί; (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode16)
  • "ᾧ κομψόσ τισ, ὡσ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, ὑπεραλγήσασ ῥυπαίνοντι τὸ τῆσ ἀρετῆσ ἀβρὸν καὶ καλόν, ἅτε φορτικῶσ μετακαλεσαμένῳ εἰσ τρυφὴν τὴν δοθεῖσαν ὑπὸ τῆσ τύχησ χορηγίαν, παρέγραψε τὸ ῥαβδοδίαιτοσ ἀνήρ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 34 3:8)
  • οὗτοσ δὴ καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ πάντεσ, Ἡρώδησ ὁ Μιαροῦ καὶ Ἡρώδησ ὁ τοῦ Γαμάλου καὶ Κομψὸσ ὁ τοῦ Κομψοῦ· (Flavius Josephus, 42:1)

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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