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

  • σπουδαίῳ ἐπιτυχεῖν. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 2:4)
  • ἀπέφαινε γοῦν φιλοσοφίᾳ συνῳδὸν τὴν παρὰ τοῖσ τοιούτοισ διατριβὴν καὶ καθαρὸν ἦθοσ φυλάξαι δυναμένην, σπουδαίῳ τε ἀνδρὶ καὶ πλούτου καταφρονεῖν πεπαιδευμένῳ καὶ τῷ πρὸσ τὰ φύσει καλὰ ζῆν προαιρουμένῳ τὸν ἐκεῖ βίον μάλιστα ἡρμοσμένον. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 14:5)
  • ἔρρανε δὲ ὁ Ἀλέξανδροσ καὶ μύρῳ σπουδαίῳ καὶ οἴνῳ εὐώδει τὸ δάπεδον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 53 3:1)
  • μεγαλοψύχου δὲ δοκεῖ τοῦτο διὰ τὸ περὶ ὀλίγα σπουδάζειν, καὶ ταῦτα μεγάλα, καὶ οὐχ ὅτι δοκεῖ ἑτέρῳ τινί, καὶ μᾶλλον ἂν φροντίσειεν ἀνὴρ μεγαλόψυχοσ, τί δοκεῖ ἑνὶ σπουδαίῳ ἢ πολλοῖσ τοῖσ τυγχάνουσιν, ὥσπερ Ἀντιφῶν ἔφη πρὸσ Ἀγάθωνα κατεψηφισμένοσ τὴν ἀπολογίαν ἐπαινέσαντα. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 99:1)
  • ἀγαθὸσ μὲν γὰρ ἁπλῶσ ἐστι τῷ ἀγαθὸσ εἶναι, φίλοσ δὲ τῷ ἄλλῳ ἀγαθόσ, ἁπλῶσ <δ’> ἀγαθὸσ καὶ φίλοσ, ὅταν συμφωνήσῃ ταῦτ’ ἄμφω, ὥστε ὅ ἐστιν ἁπλῶσ ἀγαθόν, τὸ τούτου ἄλλῳ, εἰ καὶ μὴ ἁπλῶσ μὲν σπουδαίῳ, ἄλλῳ δ’ ἀγαθόσ, ὅτι χρήσιμοσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 78:4)

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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