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πρόσφορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόσφορος πρόσφορᾱ πρόσφορον

Structure: προσφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: prosfe/rw

Sense

  1. serviceable, useful, profitable
  2. suitable, fitting, worthy, fit or meet
  3. what is fitting or suitable, fitting service, all things meet or due, fitly

Examples

  • διόπερ ἦσαν ἴδιοι καθ’ ἑκάστην ἁρμονίαν αὐλοὶ καὶ ἑκάστοισ αὐλητῶν ὑπῆρχον αὐλοὶ ἑκάστῃ ἁρμονίᾳ πρόσφοροι ἐν τοῖσ ἀγῶσι Πρόνομοσ δ’ ὁ Θηβαῖοσ πρῶτοσ ηὔλησεν ἀπὸ τῶν αὐτῶν αὐλῶν πάσασ τὰσ ἁρμονίασ, νῦν δὲ εἰκῇ καὶ ἀλόγωσ ἅπτονται τῆσ μουσικῆσ, καὶ πάλαι μὲν τὸ παρὰ τοῖσ ὄχλοισ εὐδοκιμεῖν σημεῖον ἦν κακοτεχνίασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 312)

Synonyms

  1. serviceable

  2. suitable

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Derived

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

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