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κόσμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόσμιος κόσμιᾱ κόσμιον

Structure: κοσμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ko/smos

Sense

  1. well-ordered, regular, moderate, a regular practice
  2. orderly, well-behaved, regular, discreet, quiet, decorum, decency, order, regularly, decently, orderly

Examples

  • πολιτείᾳ δι’ οἰκοδομήσεων ὑπάρχειν αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν ἱερῶν, ἄνευ χρυσοῦ καὶ ἀργύρου ‐ τούτοισ γὰρ οὐδὲν οὐδαμόσε προσεχρῶντο, ἀλλὰ τὸ μέσον ὑπερηφανίασ καὶ ἀνελευθερίασ μεταδιώκοντεσ κοσμίασ ᾠκοδομοῦντο οἰκήσεισ, ἐν αἷσ αὐτοί τε καὶ ἐκγόνων ἔκγονοι καταγηρῶντεσ ἄλλοισ ὁμοίοισ τὰσ αὐτὰσ ἀεὶ παρεδίδοσαν ‐ τὰ δὲ πρὸσ νότου, κήπουσ καὶ γυμνάσια συσσίτιά τε ἀνέντεσ οἱᾶ θέρουσ, κατεχρῶντο ἐπὶ ταῦτα αὐτοῖσ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 42:1)
  • τί δὲ τὸ τῆσ κοσμίασ φύσεωσ; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 317:2)

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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