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

  • ὄγκον, ἀλλ’ ἐν ὅσῳ μάλα δίχα φωνῆσ ἐννοηθεὶσ κινεῖ λόγοσ ἀπραγμόνωσ, οὕτωσ οὐκ ἂν οἶμαι δυσπείστωσ ἔχοιμεν ὑπὸ νοῦ κρείσσονοσ νοῦν καὶ ψυχῆσ θειοτέρασ ἂν ἄγεσθαι θύραθεν ἐφαπτομένησ ἣν πέφυκεν ἐπαφὴν λόγοσ ἴσχειν πρὸσ λόγον ὥσπερ φῶσ ἀνταύγειαν. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 20 18:1)
  • ἀλλὰ σιδήρῳ ἐτμήγην, κλήρῳ κρείσσονοσ εὐτυχίησ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6612)
  • εἰσ τοσόνδε ἀρετῆσ αὐτοῖσ αἱ πόλεισ ἐμαρτύρησαν ἐπιτηδεύσει τοῦ ἐπὶ πᾶσι κρείσσονοσ ἔν τε τῇ διαίτῃ τοῦ βίου καὶ λόγοισ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 19:2)
  • ὁ δὲ καὐτὸσ ᾔδει μὲν τὴν ἁμαρτάδα τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ μεγάλων αἰτίαν οὖσαν κακῶν καὶ ἐσομένην, οὐ μὴν ἀπείχετό γε εὐνοίᾳ τοῦ συγγενοῦσ νικώμενοσ καὶ συγγνώμην νέμων ὡσ ὑπὸ κρείσσονοσ κακοῦ τῆσ ἐπιθυμίασ νικωμένου. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 412:1)

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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