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κρατερός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρατερός κρατερή κρατερόν

Structure: κρατερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: epic form of ka/rteros,

Sense

  1. strong, stout, mighty
  2. strong, mighty, cruel
  3. strong, vehement, mighty, a harsh, rough
  4. strongly, stoutly, roughly

Examples

  • ἐσ πεδίον κρατερὰν ἀί̈ξαν ὑσμίναν φέροντεσ· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 13 30:1)
  • μάλιστα γὰρ ἂν αὐτὰ πάντων ἔσχεν ἡ περὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν σύστασισ, εἴπερ ἅμα συμπίπτειν ἠθελησάτην, καὶ τὸ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένοσ σαρκώδη ἔχον ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ καὶ νευρώδη κρατεράν τε κεφαλὴν βίον ἂν διπλοῦν καὶ πολλαπλοῦν καὶ ὑγιεινότερον καὶ ἀλυπότερον τοῦ νῦν κατεκτήσατο. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 377:1)

Synonyms

  1. strong

  2. strong

  3. strong

Related

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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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