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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

  • ἄνισοσ ἡ μάχη κορασιδίῳ κομψῷ πρὸσ νέον ἀρχόμενον φιλοσοφεῖν· (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 12:2)
  • τοῦτο ἵνα γένηται, δεῖ τεθῆναι χίλια βάθρα καὶ παρακληθῆναι τοὺσ ἀκουσομένουσ καὶ σὲ ἐν κομψῷ στολίῳ ἢ τριβωναρίῳ ἀναβάντα ἐπὶ πούλβινον διαγράφειν, πῶσ Ἀχιλλεὺσ ἀπέθανεν; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 35:1)

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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