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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

  • καὶ γὰρ αὖ καὶ αὕτη νεανικὴ αὐτοῖσ ἡ μάχη, τοῖσ μὲν τέλει τὸ πᾶν περιγράφουσι, τοῖσ δὲ ἀτελὲσ τοῦτο εἶναι ὑπολαμβάνουσιν οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ παμπόλλουσ τινὰσ εἶναι τοὺσ κόσμουσ ἀπεφαίνοντο καὶ τῶν ὡσ περὶ ἑνὸσ αὐτῶν διαλεγομένων κατεγίνωσκον. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 8:6)
  • "τὰ μὲν πρὸσ ὄψιν μαλακῶσ ἔχειν ἀπὸ σώματοσ,3 κόμῃ τε νεανικῇ σφρίγει τε βραχιόνων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:62)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ περὶ τῶν Νομᾶ τοῦ βασιλέωσ χρόνων, καθ’ οὓσ γέγονε, νεανικὴ διαφορά, καίπερ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ εἰσ τοῦτον κατάγεσθαι τῶν στεμμάτων ἀκριβῶσ δοκούντων. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 1 1:1)
  • τί γὰρ ἂν ἐκεῖνοσ ποιήσειεν, εἰ προσγένοιτο ἐπιθυμία νεανικὴ καὶ περὶ τὰσ τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἐνδείασ λύπη ἰσχυρά; (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 56:1)
  • αὕτη μὲν τοίνυν, ἦν δ’ ἐγώ, ὦ φίλε, ἡ ἀρχὴ οὑτωσὶ καλὴ καὶ νεανική, ὅθεν τυραννὶσ φύεται, ὡσ ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ. (Plato, Republic, book 8 442:1)

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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