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

  • ὥστε ἡδέωσ κἂν τῶν ἀντιδικούντων ἡμῖν τοῦ σεμνοτάτου πυθοίμην, εἰ ἄλλοθέν ποθεν ἔχοι ἂν ἐπιδεῖξαι αὑτὸν Ἀθηναῖον ἢ ἐκ τούτων, ὧν καὶ ἡμεῖσ Εὐφίλητον ἐπιδείκνυμεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 17 3:1)
  • ὦ νὺξ ἱερὰ ὡσ μακρὸν ἵππευμα διώκεισ ἀστεροειδέα νῶτα διφρεύουσ’ αἰθέροσ ἱερᾶσ τοῦ σεμνοτάτου δι’ Ὀλύμπου; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, lyric1)

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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