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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

  • οὔτε γὰρ λόγον ἤσκει περὶ δίκασ, ἀσπασμούσ τε καὶ δεξιώσεισ καὶ φιλοφροσύνασ, αἷσ ὑποτρέχοντεσ οἱ πολλοὶ τὸν δῆμον ἐκτῶντο θεραπευτικοὶ καὶ σπουδαῖοι γενόμενοι, παντάπασιν ἐξέλιπε, πρὸσ οὐδέτερον ἀφυῶσ ἔχων, ὡσ δ’ ἑκατέρου κρείττονα τήν ἀπ’ ἀνδρείασ καὶ δικαιοσύνησ καὶ πίστεωσ δόξαν αὑτῷ περιποιούμενοσ, οἷσ εὐθὺσ διέφερε τῶν καθ’ ἡλικίαν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 2 4:1)
  • τοιγαροῦν οὕτωσ ἦσαν ἄνδρεσ σπουδαῖοι καὶ κοινῇ καὶ ἰδίᾳ οἱ τότε τὴν πόλιν οἰκοῦντεσ ὥστε τοῖσ ἀνδρειοτάτοισ Λακεδαιμονίοισ ἐν τοῖσ ἔμπροσθεν χρόνοισ πολεμοῦσι πρὸσ Μεσσηνίουσ ἀνεῖλεν ὁ θεόσ, παρ’ ἡμῶν ἡγεμόνα λαβεῖν καὶ νικήσειν τοὺσ ἐναντίουσ. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 142:1)
  • τί τισ ἂν ἔχοι εἰπεῖν περὶ τῆσ τῶν ἐλευθέρων παίδων ἀγωγῆσ καὶ τίνι χρώμενοι σπουδαῖοι τοὺσ τρόπουσ ἂν ἀποβαῖεν, φέρε σκεψώμεθα. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 1 1:1)
  • "ἢ σπουδαῖοι; (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 21)
  • "ἢ σπουδαῖοι; (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 2 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. earnest

  2. good

  3. of character and importance

  4. good

  5. good

Related

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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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