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νόμιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νόμιμος νόμιμη νόμιμον

Structure: νομιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: no/mos

Sense

  1. conformable to custom, usage, law, customary, prescriptive, established, lawful, rightful
  2. usages, customs
  3. funeral rites

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ ὃ μὴ καλὸν οὔποτ’ ἔφυ καλόν, οὐδ’ οἱ μὴ νόμιμοι παῖδεσ ματρὶ λόχευμα, μίασμα πατρόσ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 14)
  • "νόμιμοι γὰρ οἱ πρὸσ ἐκείνουσ ἀγῶνέσ εἰσι, καὶ ὁπποῖὸν κ’ εἴπῃσθα ἔποσ, τοῖὸν κ’ ἐπακούσαισ. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 267)
  • ἅπτεται τούτων ὀκνηρῶσ καὶ ἀπροθύμωσ ἢ πάλιν διψῶδέσ ἐστι καὶ πειναλέον ὡσ οὐ πέφυκεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ὕπνων τὸ μὴ συνεχὲσ μηδὲ λεῖον ἀλλ’ ἀνωμαλίασ ἔχον καὶ διασπασμοὺσ εὐλαβεῖσθαι, καὶ τῶν ἐνυπνίων τὴν ἀτοπίαν, ἄνπερ ὦσι μὴ νόμιμοι μηδὲ συνήθεισ αἱ φαντασίαι, πλῆθοσ ἢ πάχοσ ὑγρῶν ἢ πνεύματοσ ταραχὴν ἐντὸσ κατηγοροῦσαν. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 14 3:1)
  • ὡσ ἐγὼ ἀκούων τινῶν ἐπαινουμένων, ὅτι νόμιμοι ἄνδρεσ εἰσίν, οἶμαι μὴ ἂν δικαίωσ τούτου τυχεῖν τοῦ ἐπαίνου τὸν μὴ εἰδότα τί ἐστι νόμοσ. (Xenophon, Memorabilia, , chapter 2 49:4)
  • οὐκοῦν καὶ οἱ νόμιμοι νόμῳ νόμιμοι; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 8:12)

Synonyms

  1. conformable to custom

  2. usages

  3. funeral rites

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

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