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

  • διὸ καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ἐατέον ὡσ βλαβερὸν καὶ φαῦλον καὶ σπουδαίοισ ἀνδράσιν ἣκιστα πρέπον, τὴν δὲ μετριοπάθειαν οὐκ ἀποδοκιμαστέον. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 3 1:2)
  • ἡμέρασ γὰρ, ὥσ φασιν, ἐνενήκοντα συνεχῶσ ἔπινεν ἀρξάμενοσ, καὶ τὴν αὐλὴν ἐν τῷ χρόνῳ τούτῳ σπουδαίοισ ἀνδράσι καὶ λόγοισ ἄβατον καὶ ἀνείσοδον οὖσαν μέθαι καὶ σκώμματα καὶ ψαλμοὶ καὶ ὀρχήσεισ καὶ βωμολοχίαι κατεῖχον. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 7 4:1)
  • ἐν τοῖσ σπουδαίοισ ἔσεσθαι καταγελάστουσ. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 18 1:1)
  • τοὺσ δὲ σπουδάζοντασ ἐν τοῖσ γελοίοισ ἔλεγεν ἐν τοῖσ σπουδαίοισ ἔσεσθαι καταγελάστουσ. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 181)
  • εἰ δὲ μὴ τούτων χάριν φρόνιμον ῥητέον ἀλλὰ τοῦ γίνεσθαι, τοῖσ οὖσι σπουδαίοισ οὐθὲν ἂν εἰή χρήσιμοσ· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 6 89:2)

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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