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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

  • οὐ γὰρ εἶ συνήθησ τοῖσ ἡμετέροισ ὀνόμασιν οὐδὲ τὴν καταληπτικὴν φαντασίαν ἔχεισ, ὁ δὲ σπουδαῖοσ ὁ τὴν λογικὴν θεωρίαν ἐκμαθὼν οὐ μόνον ταῦτα οἶδεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ σύμβαμα καὶ παρασύμβαμα ὁποῖα καὶ ὁπόσον ἀλλήλων διαφέρει. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 20:10)
  • οὐκοῦν καὶ μισθῶν πέρι τὰ αὐτὰ φῶμεν, οὓσ σὺ λαμβάνεισ ἐπὶ τῇ σοφίᾳ παρὰ τῶν νέων, καὶ δῆλον ὅτι μόνοσ ὁ σπουδαῖοσ μισθὸν ἐπὶ τῇ ἀρετῇ λήψεται; (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 23:1)
  • κἂν ἄνθρωποσ δέ που παρῇ πρεσβύτεροσ καὶ τῇ προαιρέσει σπουδαῖοσ, αἰδοῦνται λέγειν τι τῶν ἀσχημόνων ἢ καὶ πράττειν, ὡσ καὶ Ἐπίχαρμόσ που φησιν ἀλλὰ καὶ σιγῆν ἀγαθὸν ὅκκα παρέωντι κάρρονεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 65 1:4)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἀγησίλαοσ εἰδὼσ ἐρῶντα τὸν Ἀρχίδαμον οὐκ ἔπαυσεν ἦν γὰρ ὁ Κλεώνυμοσ εὐθὺσ ἐκ παίδων ἐπίδοξοσ, εἴ τισ καὶ ἄλλοσ, ἀνὴρ ἔσεσθαι σπουδαῖοσ. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 25 3:1)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ ὅ τε σπουδαῖοσ καὶ ὁ τοῦ μηδενὸσ ἄξιοσ ὁμοίωσ καλεῖται λόγοσ, οὐκ ἂν ἁμαρτάνοι τισ τὰ μὲν ἐοικότα τῷ καλῷ λόγῳ ποιήματα καλὰ ἡγούμενοσ, τὰ δὲ τῷ μοχθηρῷ πονηρὰ οὐδὲν ὑπὸ τῆσ τοῦ λόγου ὁμοειδείασ ταραττόμενοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2612)

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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