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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

  • ἔφη γὰρ ἐοικέναι τοὺσ μὲν ἰδιώτασ καὶ ἀτέχνουσ θεατὰσ ὄχλον ὁμσῦ πολὺν ἀσπαζομένοισ, τοὺσ δὲ κομψοὺσ καὶ φιλοτέχνουσ καθ’ ἕκαστον ἰδίᾳ τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων προσαγορεύουσι. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 1 2:1)
  • τοῦτο δὲ ἔφη μόνουσ εὑρίσκειν τοὺσ κομψούσ τε καὶ δριμεῖσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 37:1)
  • ὥστε ἴσωσ ἀναγκασθησόμεθα ἐκβαλεῖν ἐκ τῶν πόλεων τῷ λόγῳ τοὺσ κομψοὺσ πένητασ, ἵνα παρέχωμεν τῷ ὄντι καθ’ Ὅμηρον τὰσ πόλεισ εὖ ναιεταώσασ, ὑπὸ μόνων τῶν μακαρίων οἰκουμένασ, ἐντὸσ δὲ τείχουσ οὐδένα ἐάσομεν, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἐλεύθερον ἐργάτην. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 129:1)
  • ἀργίαν τε καὶ δίαιταν οἱάν διήλθομεν, ῥευμάτων τε καὶ πνευμάτων ὥσπερ λίμνασ ἐμπιμπλαμένουσ φύσασ τε καὶ κατάρρουσ νοσήμασιν ὀνόματα τίθεσθαι ἀναγκάζειν τοὺσ κομψοὺσ Ἀσκληπιάδασ, οὐκ αἰσχρὸν δοκεῖ; (Plato, Republic, book 3 411:1)
  • πάνυ κομψούσ, ἔφη, λέγεισ Ἀσκληπιοῦ παῖδασ. (Plato, Republic, book 3 452:1)

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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