Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὡραῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὡραῖος ὡραῖη ὡραῖον

Structure: ὡραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. produced at the right season, seasonable, timely, hora), fruits gathered in due season, of the season, yearling
  2. the summer season, in the season
  3. happening or done in season, in due season, seasonable, fair
  4. seasonable, due, proper
  5. seasonable or ripe, ripe for death
  6. in the bloom of youth, blooming, beautiful

Examples

  • ἐλαίαν ὡραίαν, εὔσκιον τῷ εἴδει ἐκάλεσε Κύριοσ τὸ ὄνομά σου. εἰσ φωνὴν περιτομῆσ αὐτῆσ ἀνήφθη πῦρ ἐπ’ αὐτήν, μεγάλη ἡ θλῖψισ ἐπὶ σέ, ἠχρεώθησαν οἱ κλάδοι αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 11:15)
  • ἢ ὅτι Φείδων ὁ Ἀλωπεκῆθεν ‐ οἶμαι γὰρ ἐκεῖνον λέγειν σε ‐ θυγατέρα ὅλωσ εἶχεν ὡραίαν ἤδη γάμου; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐσ ἥβην ἦλθεν ὡραίαν γάμων, καλοῦσιν αὐτὴν Θεονόην· (Euripides, Helen, episode 1:4)
  • ὁ Ῥωμαῖοσ ὑπὸ τῶν φίλων νουθετούμενοσ ὅτι σώφρονα γυναῖκα καὶ πλουσίαν καὶ ὡραίαν ἀπεπέμψατο, τὸν κάλτιον αὐτοῖσ προτείνασ; (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 221)
  • Χρυσίδα, Κορώνην, Ἀντίκυραν, Ἰσχάδα, καὶ Ναννάριον ἔσχηκασ ὡραίαν σφόδρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 52 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. the summer season

  2. happening or done in season

  3. seasonable

  4. in the bloom of youth

Related

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

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