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

  • τοῖσ δὲ νέοισ ὑπόδειγμα γενναῖον καταλελοιπὼσ εἰσ τὸ προθύμωσ καὶ γενναίωσ ὑπὲρ τῶν σεμνῶν καὶ ἁγίων νόμων ἀπευθανατίζειν. τοσαῦτα δὲ εἰπὼν ἐπὶ τὸ τύμπανον εὐθέωσ ἦλθε. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 6:28)
  • "οὐδὲν τῶν ἐνταῦθα σεμνῶν ἀΐδιόν ἐστιν, οὐδ’ ἂν ἀπαγάγοι τισ αὐτῶν τι σὺν αὑτῷ ἀποθανών, ἀλλ’ ἀνάγκη τὸν μὲν γυμνὸν οἴχεσθαι, τὴν οἰκίαν δὲ καὶ τὸν ἀγρὸν καὶ τὸ χρυσίον ἀεὶ ἄλλων εἶναι καὶ μεταβάλλειν τοὺσ δεσπότασ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 20:5)
  • Κάδμου δὲ λαὸσ ἧστο πρόσθε τειχέων, νεκροὺσ ὄπισθεν θέμενοσ, ὧν ἔκειτ’ ἀγών, ἔνερθε σεμνῶν μνημάτων Ἀμφίονοσ. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode18)
  • ἢ Πειρήνασ ὑδρευσομένα πρόσπολοσ οἰκτρὰ σεμνῶν ὑδάτων. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 210)
  • ἐσ τὸ τῶν σεμνῶν θεῶν· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 2:27)

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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