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παιγνιώδης

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: παιγνιώδης παιγνιώδες

Structure: παιγνιωδη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=dos

Sense

  1. playful, sportive, playfulness

Examples

  • μεμίμηται τὸ γὰρ πανοῦργον οὐ πολιτικὸν ἀλλὰ κακόηθεσ, καὶ τὸ ἄγροικον οὐκ ἀφελὲσ ἀλλ’ ἠλίθιον, καὶ τὸ γελοῖον οὐ παιγνιῶδεσ ἀλλὰ καταγέλαστον, καὶ τὸ ἐρωτικὸν οὐχ ἱλαρὸν ἀλλ’ ἀκόλαστον. (Plutarch, Comparationis Aristophanis et Menandri compendium, section 4 3:1)
  • ἡ δὲ ἱλαρότησ καὶ τὸ εὔθυμον ἐν ἅπαντι καιρῷ καὶ παιγνιῶδεσ, ἀχθεινὸν δὲ καὶ τραχὺ μηδέποτε μήτε φωνῇ μήτε ὄψει, τῶν καλῶν καὶ ὡραίων ἐρασμιώτερον αὐτὸν ἄχρι γήρωσ παρεῖχεν. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 2 3:1)
  • παιγνιώδεισ δ’ εἰσὶν ἀμφότεραι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 28 4:4)
  • ἂν δὲ ἡμῖν οἱ παῖδεσ μικραῖσ κύλιξι πυκνὰ ἐπιψακάζωσιν, ἵνα καὶ ἐγὼ ἐν Γοργιείοισ ῥήμασιν εἴπω, οὕτωσ οὐ βιαζόμενοι μεθύειν ὑπὸ τοῦ οἴνου ἀλλ’ ἀναπειθόμενοι πρὸσ τὸ παιγνιωδέστερον ἀφιξόμεθα. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 2 28:2)
  • καὶ τοῦτο μὲν οὐκ ἀγνοῶ, ὅτι ταῦτα ἀποφθέγματα οὐκ ἀξιόλογα, ἐκεῖνο δὲ κρίνω τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἀγαστόν, τὸ τοῦ θανάτου παρεστηκότοσ μήτε τὸ φρόνιμον μήτε τὸ παιγνιῶδεσ ἀπολιπεῖν ἐκ τῆσ ψυχῆσ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 3 64:7)

Synonyms

  1. playful

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

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