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τίμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τίμιος τίμιᾱ τίμιον

Structure: τιμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ti_mh/

Sense

  1. valued
  2. held in honour, honoured, worthy
  3. costly, prized, costly, dear
  4. conferring honour, honourable

Examples

  • μάλιστα δὲ τοῖσ μειρακίοισ τε καὶ νεωστὶ τοῦ μαθήματοσ ἁπτομένοισ ὑμῖν, ὦ Ῥοῦφε Μετίλιε πατρὸσ ἀγαθοῦ κἀμοὶ τιμιωτάτου φίλων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 13)
  • κἀμοῦ καὶ τοῦ τιμιωτάτου μοι βασιλέωσ Ἀγρίππου οὐδενὸσ μᾶλλον προνοουμένων, ἢ ἵνα μὴ ἀφορμῆσ δραξάμενοι τὸ τῶν Ιοὐδαίων ἔθνοσ ὑπὸ τῆσ ἀμύνησ προφάσει συναθροισθὲν εἰσ ἀπόνοιαν χωρῇ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 356:1)

Synonyms

  1. valued

  2. held in honour

  3. costly

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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