Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σεμνός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σεμνός σεμνή σεμνόν

Structure: σεμν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: se/bomai

Sense

  1. revered, august, holy, awful
  2. devoted to the gods, holiness
  3. reverend, august, solemn, stately, majestic
  4. very wonderful, noble, fine
  5. proud, haughty, solemn, pompous, grand, grave and solemn, grand

Examples

  • καὶ πολυώνυμε θηροφόνη παῖ Λατοῦσ χρυσώπιδοσ ἔρνοσ, σύ τε πόντιε σεμνὲ Πόσειδον ἁλιμέδον προλιπὼν μυχὸν ἰχθυόεντ’ οἰστροδόνητον, Νηρέοσ ἐναλίου τε κόραι Νύμφαι τ’ ὀρείπλαγκτοι. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parodos, lyric3)

Synonyms

  1. devoted to the gods

  2. reverend

Related

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

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