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

  • ὃ γὰρ ἐνίοτε, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, οἰόμενοι δή τι σοφὸν φράζειν πολλοὶ τῶν κομψῶν λέγουσιν, ὡσ ἄρα μετρητικὴ περὶ πάντ’ ἐστὶ τὰ γιγνόμενα, τοῦτ’ αὐτὸ τὸ νῦν λεχθὲν ὂν τυγχάνει. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 167:5)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀπεοικὸσ οὐδὲ μακρὰν δὴ τῶν σοφῶν τε καὶ κομψῶν εἰκασμάτων εἰή ἂν ὁ τροχὸσ δόξῃ παραβαλλόμενοσ, τῇ τε κινήσει καὶ μεταβολῇ πάνυ ῥᾳδίωσ περιθέων, ἐν δὲ τῇ περιφορᾷ παντοῖα σχήματα τὴν ψυχὴν ἀναγκάζων λαμβάνειν μᾶλλον ἢ ὁ τῶν κεραμέων τὰ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ πλαττόμενα. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 143:2)
  • ὅτι μὲν τοίνυν οὐχ εἷσ τῶν κομψῶν οὐδ’ οἱο͂σ ὑπελθεῖν καὶ κολακεῦσαι Κίμων ἐγένετο οἱ μηδὲ τὰ πατρῷα ἐθελήσαντεσ αὐτῷ παραδοῦναι μέχρι πόρρω τῆσ ἡλικίασ ἐπίτροποι μαρτυροῦσιν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 37:5)

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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