Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

θαυμάσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θαυμάσιος θαυμάσιᾱ θαυμάσιον

Structure: θαυμασι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qau=ma

Sense

  1. wondrous, wonderful, marvellous, wonders, marvels, marvellous, wonderfully
  2. wonderfully, exceedingly, marvellously
  3. admirable, excellent

Examples

  • οὐ κατὰ λόγων δύναμιν, καὶ μάλιστά γε τῶν ἐμῶν, ἐμφανίσαι θαυμασίαν οὕτωσ εἰκόνα, πρὸσ ἣν μόλισ ἂν ἢ Ἀπελλῆσ ἢ Ζεῦξισ ἢ Παρράσιοσ ἱκανοὶ ἔδοξαν, ἢ εἴ τισ Φειδίασ ἢ Ἀλκαμένησ ἐγὼ δὲ λυμανοῦμαι τὸ ἀρχέτυπον ἀσθενείᾳ τῆσ τέχνησ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 3:4)
  • ὑπόπτεροσ δ̓ ἐστὶ καὶ ῥάβδον τινὰ πεποίηται θαυμασίαν τὴν δύναμιν, ᾗ ψυχαγωγεῖ καὶ κατάγει τοὺσ νεκρούσ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 9:2)
  • ἄλλα δὲ ἐμοῦ ἀκούσατε ὡσ ὅμοιόσ τ’ ἐστὶν οἷσ ἐγὼ ᾔκασα αὐτὸν καὶ τὴν δύναμιν ὡσ θαυμασίαν ἔχει. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 481:2)
  • ἐλεινήν τε γὰρ ἰδεῖν εἶναι καὶ γελοίαν καὶ θαυμασίαν. (Plato, Republic, book 10 471:1)
  • τρεῖσ τε διαθήκασ ποιησάμενοσ ἔθετο τὴν μὲν ἐν Ἐρετρίᾳ πρὸσ Ἀμφίκριτον, τὴν δ’ Ἀθήνησι παρά τινασ τῶν φίλων, τὴν δὲ τρίτην ἀπέστειλεν εἰσ οἶκον πρὸσ Θαυμασίαν ἕνα τινὰ τῶν ἀναγκαίων, ἀξιώσασ διατηρῆσαι· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, D, Kef. s'. ARKESILAOS 16:5)

Synonyms

  1. wondrous

  2. admirable

Related

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

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