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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

  • φέρεται αὐτοῦ Ἱστορία Λιβύησ, καὶ Ἐπιστολαὶ Θαυμάσιαι. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , section5)
  • αὐταὶ δὲ αἱ βάλανοι τῶν φοινίκων οἱάσ μὲν ἐν τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἔστιν ἰδεῖν τοῖσ οἰκέταισ ἀπέκειντο, αἱ δὲ τοῖσ δεσπόταισ ἀποκείμεναι ἦσαν ἀπόλεκτοι, θαυμάσιαι τοῦ κάλλουσ καὶ μεγέθουσ, ἡ δὲ ὄψισ ἠλέκτρου οὐδὲν διέφερεν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 3 15:1)

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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