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θυμικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θυμικός θυμική θυμικόν

Structure: θυμικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qumo/s

Sense

  1. high-spirited, passionate

Examples

  • εἰσὶ δ’ οἳ καὶ θυμικοὶ γίνονται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 7 2:3)
  • εὐμετάβολοι δὲ καὶ ἁψίκοροι πρὸσ τὰσ ἐπιθυμίασ, καὶ σφόδρα μὲν ἐπιθυμοῦσι ταχέωσ δὲ παύονται ὀξεῖαι γὰρ αἱ βουλήσεισ καὶ οὐ μεγάλαι, ὥσπερ αἱ τῶν καμνόντων δίψαι καὶ πεῖναι, καὶ θυμικοὶ καὶ ὀξύθυμοι καὶ οἱοῖ ἀκολουθεῖν τῇ ὀργῇ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 12 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. high-spirited

Related

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

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