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

  • δεῦτε οὖν καὶ ἀπολαύσωμεν τῶν ὄντων ἀγαθῶν καὶ χρησώμεθα τῇ κτίσει ὡσ ἐν νεότητι σπουδαίωσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 2:6)
  • Οὐδαμά πω κατέμεινασ ἐμὴν χάριν, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ πᾶσαν αἰεὶ σπουδαίωσ ἔρχεαι ἀγγελίην. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389815)
  • ἀλλὰ ἔστι γὰρ καὶ σπουδαίωσ εἰρημένοσ ὁ τρόποσ τῶν ὀνομάτων τούτοισ τοῖσ θεοῖσ καὶ παιδικῶσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 138:6)
  • οὐκοῦν ὄργανά τε πάντα ἀπόλλυσθαι, καὶ εἴ τι τέχνησ ἦν ἐχόμενον σπουδαίωσ ηὑρημένον ἢ πολιτικῆσ ἢ καὶ σοφίασ τινὸσ ἑτέρασ, πάντα ἔρρειν ταῦτα ἐν τῷ τότε χρόνῳ φήσομεν; (Plato, Laws, book 3 8:3)
  • λαβόντα δὲ τὸν Κῦρον οὕτω μὲν δὴ εὖ κλύσαι τὸ ἔκπωμα ὥσπερ τὸν Σάκαν ἑώρα, οὕτω δὲ στήσαντα τὸ πρόσωπον σπουδαίωσ καὶ εὐσχημόνωσ πωσ προσενεγκεῖν καὶ ἐνδοῦναι τὴν φιάλην τῷ πάππῳ ὥστε τῇ μητρὶ καὶ τῷ Ἀστυάγει πολὺν γέλωτα παρασχεῖν. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 10:3)

Synonyms

  1. earnest

  2. good

  3. of character and importance

  4. good

  5. good

Related

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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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