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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

  • ἡ γὰρ ἀλήθεια οὕτωσ εὑρίσκεται μάλιστα, ἧσ οὐδὲν χρῆμα τιμιώτερον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 3:3)
  • τὸ χρυσίον μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲν τιμιώτερον τῶν ἐν τοῖσ αἰγιαλοῖσ ψηφίδων μοι δοκεῖ. (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 55:3)
  • οὐ σοῦ μὰ Δία καὶ τῶν σοὶ παραπλησίων ἕνεκα, τῶν ἀπὸ παντὸσ τοῦ βελτίστου κρινόντων τὰ πράγματα καὶ μηδὲν ἡγουμένων χρῆμα τιμιώτερον τῆσ ἀληθείασ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 22)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ τῆσ πατρίδοσ πεσούσησ μηδὲν ἔχων τιμιώτερον, ὃ τῶν ἐμαυτοῦ συμφορῶν εἰσ παραμυθίαν λαβὼν φυλάξαιμι, σωμάτων ἐλευθέρων τὴν αἴτησιν ἐποιούμην Τίτον καὶ βιβλίων ἱερῶν ἔλαβον χαρισαμένου Τίτου. (Flavius Josephus, 493:1)
  • τί τἀργύριον, ἄνθρωπε, τιμιώτερον σαυτοῦ τέθεικασ ἢ πέφυκε τῇ φύσει; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 55 4:1)

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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