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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

  • γάμοι δ’ ἐκείνοισ καὶ πότοι νεανικοὶ ἦσαν Εὔφρων δὲ ἐν Μούσαισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 29 2:2)
  • εὐμαθεῖσ καὶ μνήμονεσ καὶ ἀγχίνοι καὶ ὀξεῖσ καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα τούτοισ ἕπεται οἶσθ’ ὅτι οὐκ ἐθέλουσιν ἅμα φύεσθαι καὶ νεανικοί τε καὶ μεγαλοπρεπεῖσ τὰσ διανοίασ οἱοῖ κοσμίωσ μετὰ ἡσυχίασ καὶ βεβαιότητοσ ἐθέλειν ζῆν, ἀλλ’ οἱ τοιοῦτοι ὑπὸ ὀξύτητοσ φέρονται ὅπῃ ἂν τύχωσιν, καὶ τὸ βέβαιον ἅπαν αὐτῶν ἐξοίχεται. (Plato, Republic, book 6 387:1)

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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