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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

  • τί δ’ ἄν σοι τὸ ἐπὶ τούτῳ λέγοιμι παλαίστρασ καὶ τὰσ κοινὰσ τῶν ἱματιοφυλακούντων κατασκευὰσ ταχεῖαν ^ ἐπὶ τὸ λουτρὸν καὶ μὴ διὰ μακροῦ τὴν ὁδὸν ἐχούσασ τοῦ χρησίμου τε καὶ ἀβλαβοῦσ ἕνεκα; (Lucian, (no name) 8:1)
  • δι’ ἃσ δὲ αἰτίασ ἀπολιπὼν αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τουτονὶ τὸν Διάλογον ἐτραπόμην, ἀκούσατε, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, καί με μηδὲν τοῦ χρησίμου ἕνεκα ψεύδεσθαι ὑπολάβητε. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 30:4)
  • ὥστε ἀνάγκη παραπληρώμασι λέξεων οὐδὲν ὠφελουσῶν χρῆσθαι καὶ ἀπομηκύνειν πέρα τοῦ χρησίμου τὸν λόγον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 3 1:3)
  • μάλιστα δὲ σωφρονητέον ἐν ταῖσ τῶν ὀρῶν ἢ τειχῶν ἢ ποταμῶν ἑρμηνείαισ, ὡσ μὴ δύναμιν λόγων ἀπειροκάλωσ παρεπιδείκνυσθαι δοκοίησ καὶ τὸ σαυτοῦ δρᾶν παρεὶσ τὴν ἱστορίαν, ἀλλ̓ ὀλίγον προσαψάμενοσ, τοῦ χρησίμου καὶ σαφοῦσ ἕνεκα, μεταβήσῃ ἐκφυγὼν τὸν ἰξὸν τὸν ἐν τῷ πράγματι καὶ τὴν τοιαύτην ἅπασαν λιχνείαν, οἱο͂ν ὁρᾷσ καὶ Ὅμηροσ ὁ μεγαλόφρων ποιεῖ· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 571)
  • ἔστι δὲ τῆσ χρησίμου φιλίασ εἴδη δύο, ἣ μὲν νομικὴ ἣ δ’ ἠθική. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 189:2)

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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