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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

  • ὄντωσ δὲ ὁ παλαιὸσ οἶνοσ οὐ πρὸσ ἡδονὴν μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ πρὸσ ὑγίειαν προσφορώτεροσ, πέσσει τε γὰρ μᾶλλον τὰ σῖτα καὶ λεπτομερὴσ ὢν εὐανάδοτόσ ἐστι δύναμίν τε τοῖσ σώμασιν ἐμποιεῖ τὸ αἷμά τε ἐνερευθὲσ καὶ εὐανάδοτον κατασκευάζει καὶ τοὺσ ὕπνουσ ἀταράχουσ παρέχει, ἐπαινεῖ δὲ Ὅμηροσ τὸν ἐπιδεχόμενον ἱκανὴν κρᾶσιν, ὡσ τὸν τοῦ Μάρωνοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 47 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. serviceable

  2. suitable

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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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