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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

  • καὶ γλυφὴ ἐπ’ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ θυρώματα τοῦ ναοῦ Χερουβίμ, καὶ φοίνικεσ κατὰ τὴν γλυφὴν τῶν ἁγίων, καὶ σπουδαῖα ξύλα κατὰ πρόσωπον τοῦ αἰλὰμ ἔξωθεν (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 41:25)
  • καὶ σπουδαῖα νομίζων ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 10 3:5)
  • καὶ πολλὰ μὲν γέλοιά μ’ εἰ‐ πεῖν, πολλὰ δὲ σπουδαῖα, καὶ τῆσ σῆσ ἑορτῆσ ἀξίωσ παίσαντα καὶ σκώψαντα νικήσαντα ταινιοῦσθαι. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parodos, antistrophe 31)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἀξιῶ διαιρεῖν κἀν τούτοισ τὰ σπουδαῖα ἀπὸ τῶν μηδενὸσ ἀξίων, ἀκούσασ μαθέτω. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 269)
  • σύνθεσίσ ἐστιν ἡ μὲν συνεχὴσ ἡ διὰ πλειόνων ἑξῆσ εἰρομένη, ὡσ τὸ νόσημα γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, ἐμπέπτωκεν εἰσ τὴν Ἑλλάδα χαλεπόν, ἡ δὲ λελυμένη, τότε μὲν κεχυμένη, ὥσπερ τὸ ἔστω, γινέσθω ταῦτα, οὐδὲν ἀντιλέγω, ἡ δὲ κατὰ περίοδον, ἥτισ ἐστὶν σύνταξισ κώλων καὶ κομμάτων εἰσ διάνοιαν ἀπηρτισμένη φράσισ, ὥσπερ τὸ καὶ σπουδαῖα νομίζων, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, καὶ ἀναγκαῖα τῇ πόλει πειράσομαι περὶ αὐτῶν εἰπεῖν ἃ νομίζω συμφέρειν. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 2:1)
  • διὸ καὶ δοκεῖ παράδειγμα πολιτείασ ἀγαθῆσ εἶναι ψυχῆσ σπουδαία διάθεσισ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 44:2)

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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