Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἐξ ὧν οὐ λέγειν δεινοὺσ μόνον ἀπεργάσαιτ’ ἂν τοὺσ προσέχοντασ αὐτῷ τὸν νοῦν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ ἤθη σπουδαίουσ, οἴκῳ τε καὶ πόλει καὶ ὅλῃ τῇ Ἑλλάδι χρησίμουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 45)
  • διὸ δεῖ πρῶτον δούλουσ παρασκευάζεσθαι σπουδαίουσ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 24:3)
  • καὶ μάλιστα τὸ σπουδαίουσ εἶναι ἐν τοῖσ τοιούτοισ καιροῖσ ὄντασ ἐλεεινόν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 8 16:1)
  • ἐξ ὧν δὲ δεῖ τοῦτο κατασκευάζειν δεῖ, εἴρηνται οἱ τόποι πόθεν σπουδαίουσ δεῖ κατασκευάζειν καὶ φαύλουσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 19 1:4)
  • καὶ ἐοίκε δὴ ὁ ἀκρατὴσ πόλει ἣ ψηφίζεται μὲν ἅπαντα τὰ δέοντα καὶ νόμουσ ἔχει σπουδαίουσ, χρῆται δὲ οὐδέν, ὥσπερ Ἀναξανδρίδησ ἔσκωψεν ἡ πόλισ ἐβούλεθ’, ᾗ νόμων οὐδὲν μέλει· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 126:1)

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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