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κομψός?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: kompsos

Principal Part: κομψός κομψή κομψόν

Structure: κομψ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: κομέω

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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative κομψός κομψή κομψόν
Genitive κομψοῦ κομψῆς κομψοῦ
Dative κομψῷ κομψῇ κομψῷ
Accusative κομψόν κομψήν κομψόν
Vocative κομψέ κομψή κομψόν
DualN/A/V κομψώ κομψά κομψώ
G/D κομψοῖν κομψαῖν κομψοῖν
PluralNominative κομψοί κομψαί κομψά
Genitive κομψῶν κομψῶν κομψῶν
Dative κομψοῖς κομψαῖς κομψοῖς
Accusative κομψούς κομψάς κομψά
Vocative κομψοί κομψαί κομψά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective κομψός κομψοῦ κομψώτερος κομψωτεροῦ κομψώτατος κομψωτατοῦ
Adverb κομψώς κομψώτερον κομψώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

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

Related

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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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