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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

  • πόσῳ γὰρ τοῦτο ὁρᾶν ἥδιον ἢ πυκτεύοντασ νεανίσκουσ καὶ αἵματι ῥεομένουσ, καὶ παλαίοντασ ἄλλουσ ἐν κόνει, οὓσ ἡ ὄρχησισ πολλάκισ ἀσφαλέστερον ἅμα καὶ εὐμορφότερον καὶ τερπνότερον ἐπιδείκνυται. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 71:2)
  • οὐδέν τοι τούτων ἄλλ’ ἔπι τερπνότερον ἀνδράσιν οὐδὲ γυναιξί. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389595)
  • ὄμματα μὲν χρύσεια, καὶ ὑαλόεσσα παρειή, καὶ στόμα πορφυρέησ τερπνότερον κάλυκοσ, δειρὴ λυγδινέη, καὶ στήθεα μαρμαίροντα, καὶ πόδεσ ἀργυρέησ λευκότεροι Θέτιδοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 481)
  • καὶ μὴν ὧν εἶπον ἡδέων τὸ μὲν κοινωνεῖν φίλοισ τερπνότερον, μόνον δὲ ἀπολαύειν ἐν ἐρημίᾳ πάντων ἀηδέστατον, καὶ οὐδεὶσ ἂν ὑπομείνειεν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 111:2)

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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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