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περισσός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περισσός

Etym.: peri/

Sense

  1. beyond the regular number or size, prodigious
  2. out of the common way, extraordinary, uncommon, remarkable, strange
  3. (of persons) extraordinary, eminent, remarkable
  4. (with genitive) beyond others in

Examples

  • τὰ μὲν γὰρ τρία πρῶτοσ περισσὸσ ἐστι καὶ τέλειοσ· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 56 5:3)
  • κἀκεῖ τὸν Αἵδην, ὃν μόνον σέβει θεῶν, αἰτουμένη που τεύξεται τὸ μὴ θανεῖν, ἢ γνώσεται γοῦν ἀλλὰ τηνικαῦθ’ ὅτι πόνοσ περισσόσ ἐστι τἀν Αἵδου σέβειν. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 3:15)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁ περισσὸσ αἰὼν ἀθανάτοισ δέρκεται ἐν σελίσιν. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 3)
  • πᾶσ δὲ περισσὸσ καὶ χρυσὸσ τούτοισ εἰσ ἔριν ἐρχόμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 354 1:1)
  • ὁ δὲ περισσὸσ καὶ ἀδολέσχησ, ἄν γε δὴ τύχῃ καὶ τὸν Κολοφώνιον ἀνεγνωκὼσ Ἀντίμαχον, κτλ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , ovid trist. i. 6. 110)

Synonyms

  1. out of the common way

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