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σπουδαῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπουδαῖος σπουδαῖη σπουδαῖον

Structure: σπουδαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: spoudh/

Sense

  1. earnest, serious, active, zealous
  2. good, excellent
  3. of character and importance
  4. good
  5. worth one's serious attention, serious, weighty
  6. good, excellent
  7. seriously, earnestly, well, most carefully, in the best way

Examples

  • εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ παρὰ τοῖσ βαρβάροισ ὥσπερ καὶ παρὰ τοῖσ Ἕλλησι σπουδαῖαι καὶ φαῦλαι ὀρχήσεισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 30 2:3)
  • οὐχ ὁρᾶτε ὡσ σπουδαῖαι μὲν αὐτοῦ αἱ ὀφρύεσ, ἀτρεμὲσ δὲ τὸ ὄμμα, μέτριοι δὲ οἱ λόγοι, πραεῖα δὲ ἡ φωνή, ἱλαρὸν δὲ τὸ ἦθοσ; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 4:3)
  • κατὰ συμβεβηκὸσ οὖν σπουδαῖαι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 166:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἐν τῷ δυναστεύειν ἡ ἀρετὴ οὐδ’ ὁ νοῦσ, ἀφ’ ὧν αἱ σπουδαῖαι ἐνέργειαι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 79:2)
  • οὐ γάρ τι σπουδαῖαι αἱ νομαὶ αὐτόθι εἰσί. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 23 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. earnest

  2. good

  3. of character and importance

  4. good

  5. good

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

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