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μακάριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μακάριος μακαρίᾱ μακάριον

Structure: μακαρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: longer form of ma/kar

Sense

  1. (mostly of men) blessed, happy
  2. (often in Plato as a plural substantive) the rich and better educated
  3. (of the dead)
  4. (of states, qualities, and the like)

Examples

  • κἀκεῖνοσ μὲν παραλαμβάνει τὸ ναυτικόν, ὁ δὲ Τελευτίασ μακαριώτατα δὴ ἀπέπλευσεν οἴκαδε. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 5:2)
  • τίνεσ δὴ καὶ πόσοι εἰσὶ βίοι, ὧν πέρι δεῖ προελόμενον τὸ βούλητόν τε καὶ ἑκούσιον ἀβούλητόν τε καὶ ἀκούσιον ἰδόντα εἰσ νόμον ἑαυτῷ ταξάμενον, τὸ φίλον ἅμα καὶ ἡδὺ καὶ ἄριστόν τε καὶ κάλλιστον ἑλόμενον, ζῆν ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τ’ ἐστὶν ἄνθρωπον μακαριώτατα; (Plato, Laws, book 5 49:1)

Synonyms

  1. blessed

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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