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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

  • "πολύ τοι φέριστον ἀνδρὶ τερπνὸσ αἰών. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 512)
  • πολλῶν δὲ τοιούτων ἔτι λεγομένων ἐκ τῶν γειτόνων τισ ἐξηκούσθη ὑδραύλεωσ ἦχοσ πάνυ τι ἡδὺσ καὶ τερπνόσ, ὡσ πάντασ ἡμᾶσ ἐπιστραφῆναι θελχθέντασ ὑπὸ τῆσ ἐμμελείασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 751)
  • ἐμοὶ πικρὸσ τέθνηκεν ἢ κείνοισ γλυκύσ, αὑτῷ δὲ τερπνόσ· (Sophocles, Ajax, episode4)
  • τερπνὸσ μὲν Διόδωροσ, ἐν ὄμμασι δ’ Ἡράκλειτοσ, ἡδυεπὴσ δὲ Δίων, ὀσφύι δ’ Οὐλιάδησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 941)
  • ἦν γὰρ ὅτ’ ἦν Δάφνισ μὲν Ὀρειάσι,^ σοὶ δ’ Υἅκινθοσ τερπνόσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 128 1:1)

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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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