Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ῥᾴδιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥᾴδιος ῥᾴδιᾱ ῥᾴδιον

Structure: ῥᾳδι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. easy, easy to understand, easy to do
  2. easygoing, adaptable, reckless, unscrupulous
  3. better (i.e. get better from sickness)

Examples

  • ἀλλὰ πείσθητί μοι καὶ πῖθι καὶ ῥᾴων ἔσῃ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 20:7)
  • φίλτρον τοῦτ’ ἔχων ῥᾴων ἔσῃ; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 5:24)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐ τὸ Διὸσ πολύαστρον ἕδοσ καὶ τὴν ἐπ’ ἐμοῖσ σκοπέλοισι θεὰν λίμνησ τ’ ἐνύδρου Τριτωνιάδοσ πότνιαν ἀκτάν, οὐκέτι κρύψω λέχοσ, ὡσ στέρνων ἀπονησαμένη ῥᾴων ἔσομαι. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric6)
  • "ταῦτ’ ἢν ποῇσ, ῥᾴων ἔσει τὴν οὐσίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 60 1:8)
  • πολλὰ γὰρ προείμεθα, ὧν ὑπαρχόντων τότ’ ἂν ἢ νῦν ἀσφαλέστεροσ καὶ ῥᾴων ἦν ἡμῖν ὁ πόλεμοσ. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 17:3)

Synonyms

  1. easy

  2. easygoing

  3. better

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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