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νεανικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεανικός νεανική νεανικόν

Structure: νεανικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: neani/as

Sense

  1. youthful, fresh, active, vigorous, a fine large
  2. high-spirited, impetuous, dashing, generous, gay, the gayest, most dashing
  3. headstrong, wanton, insolent
  4. vehement, mighty
  5. vigorously
  6. violently, wantonly

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ ὁρ́μοσ ὄρχησίσ ἐστιν κοινὴ ἐφήβων τε καὶ παρθένων, παρ’ ἕνα χορευόντων καὶ ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ὁρ́μῳ ἐοικότων καὶ ἡγεῖται μὲν ὁ ἔφηβοσ τὰ νεανικὰ ὀρχούμενοσ καὶ ὅσοισ ὕστερον ἐν πολέμῳ χρήσεται, ἡ παρθένοσ δὲ ἕπεται κοσμίωσ τὸ θῆλυ χορεύειν διδάσκουσα, ὡσ εἶναι τὸν ὁρ́μον ἐκ σωφροσύνησ καὶ ἀνδρείασ πλεκόμενον. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 12:1)
  • ἐκείνῳ αἱ παρθένοι ἀνήγοντο, καὶ εἴ τινεσ σφαγαὶ καὶ εἴ τινεσ καὶ χρημάτων ἀφαιρέσεισ καὶ βάσανοι καὶ ὕβρεισ, πάντα ταῦτα τολμήματα ἦν νεανικά. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 5:3)
  • καὶ ταῦτα τὰ λαμπρὰ καὶ νεανικά ἐστιν αὐτῶν οὐ γὰρ ἡμεῖσ μαρτυρήσομεν ἀλλήλοισ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 49:1)

Synonyms

  1. headstrong

  2. vehement

  3. violently

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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