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

  • πόνοι γὰρ καὶ πόνων ἀνάγκαι κρείσσονεσ κυκλοῦνται κοινὸν δ’ ἐξ ἰδίασ ἀνοίασ κακὸν τᾷ Σιμουντίδι γᾷ ὀλέθριον ἔμολε συμφορά τ’ ἀπ’ ἄλλων. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, antistrophe1)
  • φυλακαὶ γὰρ ἡμῶν κρείσσονεσ κατ’ ἐξόδουσ· (Euripides, Heracles, episode 3:13)
  • διεγείρουσι δ’ ὄντωσ αὐτῶν πρὸσ ἀφροδίσια οἱ βασιλικοὶ λεγόμενοι, οἳ καὶ κρείσσονεσ τῶν ἄλλων εἰσί· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52183)
  • εἰσὶ γὰρ οἱ μὲν μέλανεσ, οἱ δ’ ὑποπυρρίζοντεσ, κρείσσονεσ δ’ εἰσὶν οἱ μελανίζοντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 91 1:2)
  • "ὁρᾶν δεῖ, ἀλλ’ οἷ μαχούμενοι κρείσσονεσ τῶν πολεμίων ἐσόμεθα. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 4 1:1)

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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