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χρήσιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρήσιμος χρήσιμη χρήσιμον

Structure: χρησιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xra/omai

Sense

  1. useful, serviceable, good for use, good, apt or fit, advantage, useful, useful for
  2. serviceable, useful, serviceable
  3. much-used
  4. that will not pass
  5. serviceable, with advantage

Examples

  • ἔστιν, ὦ φιλτάτη, ὅτι χρησίμη φαρμακίσ, Σύρα τὸ γένοσ, ὠμὴ ἔτι καὶ συμπεπηγυῖα, ἥ μοί ποτε Φανίαν χαλεπαίνοντα κἀκεῖνον εἰκῆ, ὥσπερ Χαρῖνοσ, διήλλαξε μετὰ μῆνασ ὅλουσ τέτταρασ, ὅτε ἐγὼ μὲν ἤδη ἀπεγνώκειν, ὁ δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐπῳδῶν ἧκεν αὖθισ ἐπ̓ ἐμέ. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:1)
  • πᾶσα δ’ ἡ ἐκλογὴ χρησίμη οὖσα εἰσ πολλά, ἐπεὶ τὰ νῦν διὰ μνήμησ οὐ κρατεῖσ, αὐτὸσ ἐγὼ διεξελεύσομαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 69 3:1)
  • διῃρημένησ γὰρ τῆσ φιλίασ κατὰ τρεῖσ τρόπουσ, οὔτ’ ἐν τῇ χρησίμῃ οὔτ’ ἐν τῇ καθ’ ἡδονὴν ἐστίν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 144:4)
  • ὅλωσ μὲν γὰρ ἐν τῇ χρησίμῃ τῶν τριῶν πλεῖστα ἐγκλήματα ἡ μὲν γὰρ ἀρετὴ ἀνέγκλητον, οἱ δ’ ἡδεῖσ ἔχοντεσ καὶ δόντεσ ἀπαλλάττονται· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 193:1)
  • αἴτιον δὲ τοῦ μάχεσθαι, διότι καλλίων μὲν ἡ ἠθικὴ φιλία, ἀναγκαιοτέρα δὲ ἡ χρησίμη. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 200:4)

Synonyms

  1. serviceable

  2. much-used

  3. that will not pass

  4. serviceable

Related

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

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