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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

  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὐ μόνον ἀνδρῶν δικαίων χρόνοσ σωτὴρ ἄριστοσ κατὰ Πίνδαρον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τεχνῶν νὴ Δία καὶ ἐπιτηδευμάτων γε καὶ παντὸσ ἄλλου σπουδαίου χρήματοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De antiquis oratoribus, chapter 21)
  • ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἴδιον αὐτοῦ συλλογίζεσθαι, τὸ δανείζειν δὲ καὶ λογίζεσθαι τοὺσ τόκουσ πλησίον εἶναι δοκεῖ τῷ συλλογίζεσθαι, μόνου ἂν εἰή τοῦ σπουδαίου καθάπερ ἐκεῖνο καὶ τοῦτο, καὶ οὐ μόνον γε ἁπλοῦσ, ὥσπερ οἱ ἄλλοι, τοὺσ τόκουσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτων ἑτέρουσ τόκουσ λαμβάνειν ἢ γὰρ ἀγνοεῖσ ὅτι τῶν τόκων οἱ μέν εἰσι πρῶτοί τινεσ, οἱ δὲ δεύτεροι, καθάπερ αὐτῶν ἐκείνων ἀπόγονοι; (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 22:11)
  • εἰσὶ δ’ οἵ φασι ταύτησ εἶναι τῆσ γνώμησ τὸν Ὅμηρον, προτάττοντα τοῦ σπουδαίου βίου πολλάκισ τὸν καθ’ ἡδονήν, λέγοντα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 7 3:4)
  • εἰ δή τίσ ἐστιν ἀρετὴ σκυτικῆσ καὶ σπουδαίου σκυτέωσ, τὸ ἔργον ἐστὶ σπουδαῖον ὑπόδημα. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 12:2)
  • ἡ γὰρ τοῦ φύσει σπουδαίου ἀρετὴ ἁπλῶσ ἀγαθόν, ἡ δὲ τοῦ μὴ ἐκείνῳ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 60:3)

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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