Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

νόστιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νόστιμος νόστιμον

Structure: νοστιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: no/stos

Sense

  1. belonging to a return, of return, the return
  2. able or likely to return, alive, safe
  3. yielding a return, productive, what was most flourishing

Examples

  • μνώεο μὴν ἀπεών περ ὁμῶσ καὶ νόστιμοσ ἤδη Ὑψιπύλησ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 16:5)
  • εἰ νόστιμόσ τε καὶ σεσωσμένοσ πάλιν ἥκει σὺν ὑμῖν, τῆσδε γῆσ φίλον κράτοσ. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 4:4)
  • οὐ μέν σ’ οὐδὲ ἐῶσι θεοὶ ῥεῖα ζώοντεσ κλαίειν οὐδ’ ἀκάχησθαι, ἐπεί ῥ’ ἔτι νόστιμόσ ἐστι σὸσ παῖσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 98:2)
  • εἰ δ’ ὁ μὲν ὣσ ἀπόλωλε καὶ οὐκέτι νόστιμόσ ἐστιν, ἀλλ’ ἤδη παῖσ τοῖοσ Ἀπόλλωνόσ γε ἕκητι, Τηλέμαχοσ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 13:12)
  • νῦν δ’ ἤδη τόδε δῆλον, ὅ τ’ οὐκέτι νόστιμόσ ἐστιν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 20 54:5)

Synonyms

  1. belonging to a return

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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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