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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

  • οἱ δὲ μειρακιώδεισ σχηματισμοὶ τῶν ἀντιθέτων τε καὶ παρομοιώσεων καὶ παρισώσεων, ἐν οἷσ οἱ περὶ τὸν Γοργίαν μάλιστα ἐπλεόνασαν, ἥκιστα τῷ χαρακτῆρι τούτῳ προσήκοντεσ, αὐστηρὰν ἔχοντι τὴν ἀγωγὴν καὶ τοῦ κομψοῦ πλεῖστον ἀφεστηκότι, τοιοῦτοί τινέσ εἰσι παρὰ τῷ συγγραφεῖ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 171)
  • δουλεύει γὰρ ἡ διάνοια πολλάκισ τῷ ῥυθμῷ τῆσ λέξεωσ καὶ τοῦ κομψοῦ λείπεται τὸ ἀληθινόν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 12 1:3)
  • οὗτοσ δὴ καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ πάντεσ, Ἡρώδησ ὁ Μιαροῦ καὶ Ἡρώδησ ὁ τοῦ Γαμάλου καὶ Κομψὸσ ὁ τοῦ Κομψοῦ· (Flavius Josephus, 42:1)
  • κομψοῦ δὲ τοῦ λόγου φανέντοσ οὐδέν τι μᾶλλον ὁ Περικλῆσ ἐνέδωκεν. (Plutarch, , chapter 30 1:4)
  • καὶ χείρων γίνῃ κομψοῦ ἀρχιερέωσ, ὃσ τοὺσ καλοὺσ μονομάχουσ διὰ πάσησ ἐπιμελείασ ἔχει; (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 23:2)

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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