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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

  • ἤκουσασ ὡσ μαγειρικῶσ κομψῶσ τε καὶ δειπνητικῶσ αὑτῷ διακονεῖται; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, strophe5)
  • ἐν τῷ βαλανείῳ καταμαθὼν οὖν πλείονασ γυμναζομένουσ τῶν μειρακίσκων παρὰ τὸ πῦρ, κομψῶσ τό τε χρῶμα καὶ τὸ σῶμ’ ἠσκηκότασ, διαμαρτάνειν ἔφασκε τοὺσ εἰρηκότασ αὑτῷ καταμαθὼν δ’, ἡνίκ’ ἐξῄει πάλιν τῆσ κοιλίασ τὸν σπλῆν’ ἔχοντα διπλάσιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 41 2:2)
  • "ὅτε γὰρ μὴ νικῴη, λαμβάνων ἔδωκεν εἰσ τὸν λιβανωτὸν κατατεμεῖν καὶ οὐ μετεσκεύαζεν ὥσπερ οἱ πολλοί, καὶ πολλὰ ἔχοντα κομψῶσ τῶν δραμάτων ἠφάνιζε, δυσκολαίνων τοῖσ θεαταῖσ διὰ τὸ γῆρασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 14 5:41)
  • ὁρ́α δὲ μὴ τοῦτο κομψῶσ μᾶλλον ἢ ἀληθῶσ εἰρημένον ἐστίν· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 16 7:1)
  • κομψῶσ δὲ κἀν τῷ Ἀσκληπιῷ ὁ Τελέστησ ἐδήλωσε τὴν τῶν αὐλῶν χρείαν ἐν τούτοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 7 1:10)

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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