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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

  • αἱ δέ γε ἑταῖραι, καὶ μάλιστα αἱ ἀμορφότεραι αὐτῶν, καὶ τὴν ἐσθῆτα ὅλην πορφυρᾶν καὶ τὴν δειρὴν χρυσῆν πεποίηνται, τῷ πολυτελεῖ θηρώμεναι τὸ ἐπαγωγὸν καὶ τὸ ἐνδέον τῷ καλῷ προσθέσει τοῦ ἔξωθεν τερπνοῦ παραμυθούμεναι· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 7:2)
  • ἡ κωμῳδία δὲ καὶ τῶν προσώπων αὐτῶν τὸ καταγέλαστον μέροσ τοῦ τερπνοῦ αὑτῇ νενόμικεν, οἱᾶ Δάων καὶ Τιβείων καὶ μαγείρων πρόσωπα. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 29:1)
  • ἔτι δὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἐπιτηδευμάτων τῶν μὲν τὸ τερπνόν, τῶν δὲ τὸ χρήσιμον ὑπισχνουμένων, μόνη ὄρχησισ ἄμφω ἔχει, καὶ πολύ γε τὸ χρήσιμον ὠφελιμώτερον ὅσῳ μετὰ τοῦ τερπνοῦ γίγνεται. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 71:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀληθείασ μέλει αὐτοῖσ, οἶμαι, ἀλλὰ τοῦ κηλεῖν τοὺσ ἀκούοντασ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μέτροισ τε κατᾴδουσι καὶ μύθοισ κατηχοῦσι καὶ ὅλωσ ἅπαντα ὑπὲρ τοῦ τερπνοῦ μηχανῶνται. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 39:7)
  • χαριζόμεθα τὸ ποθεῖν καὶ τὸ τιμᾶν καὶ τὸ μεμνῆσθαι τῶν ἀπογενομένων, ἡ δὲ θρήνων ἄπληστοσ ἐπιθυμία καὶ πρὸσ ὀλοφύρσεισ ἐξάγουσα καὶ κοπετοὺσ αἰσχρὰ μὲν οὐχ ἧττον τῆσ περὶ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ ἀκρασίασ, λόγῳ δὲ συγγνώμησ ἔτυχεν, ὅτι τὸ λυπηρὸν αὐτῆσ καὶ πικρὸν ἀντὶ τοῦ τερπνοῦ τῷ αἰσχρῷ πρόσεστι. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 4 5:1)

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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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