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

  • ἐλθὼν δ’ ὑπέρ τ’ Ἀσωπὸν Ἰσμηνοῦ θ’ ὕδωρ σεμνῷ τυράννῳ φράζε Καδμείων τάδε· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode2)
  • λέγειν μηδ’ εἰκῇ συνθήσειν τὰ προστυχόντα ἀλλήλοισ, ἀλλ’ ἐκλογῇ τε χρήσεσθαι καθαρῶν ἅμα καὶ γενναίων ὀνομάτων καὶ συνθέσει ταῦτα κοσμήσειν μεμιγμένον ἐχούσῃ τῷ σεμνῷ τὸ ἡδύ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 18)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὁ λόγοσ νεαρὸν μὲν οὐδὲν οὐδὲ κομψὸν εἶχεν, ἀλλ’ ἦν ὄρθιοσ Καὶ περιπληθὴσ Καὶ τραχύσ, οὐ μὴν ἀλλὰ Καὶ χάρισ ἀγωγὸσ ἀκοῆσ ἐπέτρεχε τῇ τραχύτητι τῶν νοημάτων, Καὶ τὸ ἦθοσ αὐτοῦ καταμιγνύμενον ἡδονήν τινα Καὶ μειδίαμα τῷ σεμνῷ παρεῖχεν οὐκ ἀπάνθρωπον. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 5 2:1)
  • διὸ ἐνίοτε οἱ ἐναντίοι τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀντιποιοῦνται, οἱο͂ν ὁ ἄσωτοσ τῷ ἐλευθερίῳ καὶ ὁ αὐθάδησ τῷ σεμνῷ καὶ ὁ θρασὺσ τῷ ἀνδρείῳ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 93:2)
  • ὥστε καὶ τῷ σεμνῷ καὶ τῷ μεγαλοπρεπεῖ ὅμοιοσ εἶναι δοκεῖ, ὅτε καὶ πάσαισ ταῖσ ἀρεταῖσ ἀκολουθεῖν φαίνεται. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 95:1)

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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