Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κρείσσων

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρείσσων κρεῖσσον

Structure: κρεισς (Stem) + ων (Comparative Ending)

Etym.: κρατύς의 비교급

Sense

  1. stronger, mightier, more powerful
  2. better, betters, advantages
  3. a better right, better, better
  4. too great for, too great, too bad for, worse
  5. having power over, master of, superior to
  6. better, more excellent

Examples

  • ἄφρων δ’, ὅσ κ’ ἐθέλῃ πρὸσ κρείσσονασ ἀντιφερίζειν· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 25:5)
  • Κύρῳ δὲ γενναῖον ἵππον, ἄστομον δὲ καὶ ὑβριστὴν ἐλαύνοντι, Πασακᾶν καλούμενον, ὡσ Κτησίασ φησίν, ἀντεξήλασεν ὁ Καδουσίων ἄρχων Ἀρταγέρσησ μέγα βοῶν, "ὦ τὸ κάλλιστον ἐν Πέρσαισ ὄνομα Κύρου καταισχύνων, ἀδικώτατε ἀνδρῶν καὶ ἀφρονέστατε, κακοὺσ μὲν Ἕλληνασ ἔρχῃ κακὴν ὁδὸν ἄγων ἐπὶ τὰ Περσῶν ἀγαθά, δεσπότην δὲ σεαυτοῦ καὶ ἀδελφὸν ἐλπίζων ἀναιρήσειν, ὃσ σοῦ μυριάκισ μυρίουσ δούλουσ ἔχει κρείσσονασ. (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 9 1:2)
  • "ὦ ξένοι Βρασίδασ γὰρ ἦν μὲν ἀνὴρ ἀγαθόσ, πολλοὺσ δ’ ἐκείνου κρείσσονασ ἔχει ἡ Σπάρτη. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 4 1:1)
  • μήτι δ’ ἡνιόχων περιγίγνομαι, οἷσι καὶ ἵππουσ κρείσσονασ ἀντιπορὼν, δεῖξα χερειοτέρουσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 341 1:1)
  • καὶ τίσ ἂν εἴποι κρείσσονασ αὐχμηρὰσ ἀσταχύων καλάμασ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 363)

Synonyms

  1. stronger

  2. better

  3. a better right

  4. having power over

  5. better

Related

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

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