Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • "οἴμοι, γυναῖκα χρησίμην ἀπώλεσα. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 15:4)
  • τὴν μέντοι κόνιν ἐπὶ τὸ ἐναντίον χρησίμην οἰόμεθα εἶναι, ὡσ μὴ διολισθάνοιεν συμπλεκόμενοι. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 29:1)
  • πλὴν ἀλλ̓ ὥσπερ ἐγὼ μαντεύομαι, ὁ δὲ Ἀσκληπιὸσ ἰᾶται, σὺ δὲ παλαίειν διδάσκεισ παιδοτρίβησ ἄριστοσ ὤν, ἡ δὲ Ἄρτεμισ μαιεύεται καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἕκαστοσ ἔχει τινὰ τέχνην ἢ θεοῖσ ἢ ἀνθρώποισ χρησίμην, οὗτοι δὲ τί ποιήσουσιν ἡμῖν; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 8:5)
  • καλὴν δὲ ταύτην ἐνόμιζον τὴν παραίνεσὶν τέ τινα καὶ γνώμην ἔχειν δοκοῦσαν χρησίμην εἰσ τὸν βίον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 49 3:1)
  • τούτοισ ἐπιτίθησι διάνοιαν ἀληθῆ μὲν καὶ δεινῶσ ἀπηγγελμένην, οὐ μέντοι γε τῷ παρόντι καιρῷ χρησίμην· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 44 1:3)

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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