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σύμφορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σύμφορος σύμφορον

Structure: συμφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sumfe/rw III

Sense

  1. happening with, accompanying, companion
  2. useful, profitable, expedient, suitable, good, what is expedient, plea of expediency, expedient
  3. most convenient

Examples

  • δούλων γὰρ ἴδιον τοῦτο, σοὶ δὲ σύμφορον. (Euripides, episode, lyric 1:42)
  • σύμφορον δέ τοι ὡσ ῥᾷστα τἀναγκαῖα τοῦ βίου φέρειν. (Euripides, Helen, episode2)
  • οὐ σύμφορον νέα ’ στὶ πρεσβύτῃ γυνή. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 9 1:4)
  • τροφῆσ κατακρατεῖν ἡ δ’ οὐ φέρει τὸ πολὺ καὶ κατακλύζον, ἢ πυκνὸσ ὢν ὁ πυρὸσ καὶ ξυλώδησ φύεται βέλτιον ἐν ὑγρῷ μαλαττόμενοσ καὶ χυλούμενοσ, τῇ δὲ κριθῇ διὰ μανότητα σύμφορον ἐν ἀρχῇ τὸ ξηρότερον, ἢ διὰ θερμότητα σύμμετροσ καὶ ἀβλαβὴσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 16 1:1)
  • σύμφορον δὲ φρενιτι κοῖσι οὔρησισ · λαχάνων πάντων μὲν, μάλιστα δὲ μαλάχησ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 32)
  • οὔ τοι σύμφορόν ἐστι γυνὴ νέα ἀνδρὶ γέροντι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 9 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. most convenient

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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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