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τερπνός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τερπνός τερπνή τερπνόν

Structure: τερπν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/rpw

Sense

  1. delightsome, delightful, pleasant, agreeable, glad, delight, pleasure, delights, pleasures
  2. with joy

Examples

  • ἐῶ λέγειν ὅτι οἱ ἔπαινοι ἑνὶ μὲν ἴσωσ τερπνοί, τῷ ἐπαινουμένῳ, τοῖσ δ̓ ἄλλοισ ἐπαχθεῖσ, καὶ μάλιστα ἢν ὑπερφυεῖσ τὰσ ὑπερβολὰσ ἔχωσιν, οἱούσ αὐτοὺσ οἱ πολλοὶ ἀπεργάζονται, τὴν εὔνοιαν τὴν παρὰ τῶν ἐπαινουμένων θηρώμενοι καὶ ἐνδιατρίβοντεσ ἄχρι τοῦ πᾶσι προφανῆ τὴν κολακείαν ἐξεργάσασθαι· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 11 1:3)

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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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