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

  • Πλοῦτον δὲ κοσμεῖν ἱματίοισ σεμνοῖσ πρέπει. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:48)
  • τοῖσ δ’ αὖ σεμνοῖσ τῶν ὀρνίθων δένδρον ἐλάασ ὁ νεὼσ ἔσται· (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, pnigos3)
  • ἀλλ’ ἔστι τοῖσ σεμνοῖσ μὲν αὐθαδέστεροσ καὶ τοῖσ κόλαξι πᾶσι, τοῖσ σκώπτουσι δὲ ἑαυτὸν εὐόργητοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 76 3:2)
  • ἡ δὲ περὶ τὰσ ᾠδὰσ καὶ τὰ μέλη παίδευσισ οὐχ ἧττον ἐσπουδάζετο τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ εὐζηλίασ καὶ καθαριότητοσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ μέλη κέντρον εἶχεν ἐγερτικὸν θυμοῦ καὶ παραστατικὸν ὁρμῆσ ἐνθουσιώδουσ καὶ πραγματικῆσ, καὶ ἡ λέξισ ἦν ἀφελὴσ καὶ ἄθρυπτοσ ἐπὶ πράγμασι σεμνοῖσ καὶ ἠθοποιοῖσ. (Plutarch, Lycurgus, chapter 21 1:1)
  • τίεται δ’ αἰολόμητισ θεὸσ ἔργοισ ἐπὶ σεμνοῖσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 22)

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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