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

  • τῷ γὰρ χρόνῳ νοῦν ἔσχον, ὥστε συμφέρειν τοῖσ κρείσσοσιν. (Sophocles, episode19)
  • ἤτοι βέλτερόν ἐστι κατ’ οὔρεα θῆρασ ἐναίρειν ἀγροτέρασ τ’ ἐλάφουσ ἢ κρείσσοσιν ἶφι μάχεσθαι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 42:4)
  • ἢ γὰρ κρείσσοσιν εὑρεθεῖσι κατακολουθήσειν ἢ μετακοσμήσειν αὐτοὺσ ἐπὶ τὸ βέλτιον αὐτὸσ ἄμεινον φρονῶν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 202:2)
  • αἴτιον δ’ ἦν ἡ περὶ τὰ ἀχρεῖα σπουδὴ καὶ τὸ δαπανῶντα εἰσ ἡδονάσ, αἳ καταμόνασ ἔμελλον ὠφελεῖν, αὐτῷ ὑφαιρεῖν τῆσ ἐπὶ τοῖσ κρείσσοσιν ἀνωμολογημένοισ φιλοτιμίασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 234:1)

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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