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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

  • ^ φημὶ τοίνυν δεινὰ ποιεῖν ἐνίουσ ἡμῶν, οἷσ οὐκ ἀπόχρη θεοὺσ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων αὐτοῖσ γεγενῆσθαι, ἀλλ’, εἰ μὴ καὶ τοὺσ ἀκολούθουσ καὶ θεράποντασ αὐτῶν ἰσοτίμουσ ἡμῖν ἀποφανοῦσιν, οὐδὲν μέγα οὐδὲ νεανικὸν οἰόνται εἰργάσθαι. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 1:7)
  • εἴ μοι πορίσασ ἄρτον τιν’ εὖ πεπεμμένον δοίησ καταφαγεῖν καὶ κρέασ νεανικὸν ὧν θύεθ’ ὑμεῖσ ἔνδον. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:2)
  • καὶ οὗτοι ἔσονται τοῖσ ἀρίστοισ ἆθλον φιλῆσαι λαμπρόν τι καὶ νεανικὸν ἐργασαμένοισ. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 17:10)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἠδυνάμην διαρκεῖν πρὸσ οὕτω πολλὴν τὴν ἀδικίαν τῶν νῦν, ἀλλ̓ ἀεὶ ἀναθεῖν ἔδει ἄνω καὶ κάτω τὸν κεραυνὸν διηρμένον τοὺσ ἐπιόρκουσ ἢ ἱεροσύλουσ ἢ βιαίουσ καταφλέγοντα, καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα πάνυ ἐργῶδεσ ἦν καὶ νεανικόν· (Lucian, Saturnalia, 7:4)
  • ἔστι δ’ οὐδέποτ’, οἶμαι, μέγα καὶ νεανικὸν φρόνημα λαβεῖν μικρὰ καὶ φαῦλα πράττοντασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 21 5:1)

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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