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

  • δεῖ δέ μ’ ‐ οὐκ ἄλλωσ λέγω ‐ σῴζειν σε σοφίᾳ, μὴ βίᾳ τῶν κρεισσόνων. (Euripides, episode, iambic 21:8)
  • ὃσ εὖτ’ ἂν ἄλλων κρεισσόνων ὁπμὴν μάθῃ, στρόβιλοσ ἀμφάκανθον εἱλίξασ δέμασ κεῖται δακεῖν τε καὶ θιγεῖν ἀμήχανοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 8:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐλώφησε, λέγειν τοὺσ νησιώτασ ὅτι τῶν κρεισσόνων τινὸσ ἔκλειψισ γέγονεν. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 18 3:1)
  • μηδὲ κρεισσόνων θεῶν ἔρωσ ἄφυκτον ὄμμα προσδράκοι με. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, choral, epode3)
  • ὑπ’ ἀρχᾶσ δ’ οὔ τινοσ θοάζων τὸ μεῖον κρεισσόνων κρατύνει. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 51)

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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