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

  • οἱ λοιποὶ δὲ τὸ ψυχροβαφὲσ κάρα δελφινίσαντεσ παρένεον ὑποβρύχιοι θαυμασίωσ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 5:3)
  • φιλανθρωπίᾳ γὰρ καὶ πρᾳότητι καὶ τῷ ἡμέρῳ κἀξ ἰσοτιμίασ θαυμασίωσ ἐγὼ ἤλπιζον ἐσ τὸ πείθεσθαι προσάξεσθαι τούτουσ. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 3:3)
  • θαυμασίωσ ἥσθην θεοῖσ, καὶ Ζεὺσ γέλοιοσ ὀμνύμενοσ τοῖσ εἰδόσιν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics24)
  • "ἐπὶ δὲ πᾶσιν ἐπόμπευσαν αἱ δυνάμεισ αἱ ἱππικοὶ καὶ πεζικαί, πᾶσαι καθωπλισμέναι θαυμασίωσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 31 3:21)
  • ταῦτα δὲ πάντα δάπεδον εἶχεν ἐν ἀβακίσκοισ συγκείμενον ἐκ παντοίων λίθων, ἐν οἷσ ἦν κατεσκευασμένοσ πᾶσ ὁ περὶ τὴν Ἰλιάδα μῦθοσ θαυμασίωσ ταῖσ τε κατασκευαῖσ καὶ ταῖσ ὀροφαῖσ, καὶ θυρώμασι δὲ πάντα ἦν ταῦτα πεπονημένα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 415)

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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