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

  • ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ὁ μείνασ νῦν ἐν Ἑλλάδοσ τόποισ στρατὸσ κυρήσει νοστίμου σωτηρίασ. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, iambics 1:8)
  • δεῖ γὰρ πρὸσ οἴκουσ νοστίμου σωτηρίασ κάμψαι διαύλου θάτερον κῶλον πάλιν· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 3:3)

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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