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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

  • ἱκανὸν καὶ τοῦτο, εἰ καὶ σὺ φὴσ ἐπὶ μηδενὶ χρησίμῳ γίγνεσθαι τὰσ θυσίασ, εὐγνωμοσύνῃ δέ τινι τῶν ἀνθρώπων τιμώντων τὸ βέλτιον. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 7:8)
  • καίτοι πρεσβυτέρων τινῶν οἱών ἀργαλεωτάτων ἐν τῷ δείγματι τῶν δικῶν ἤκουσ’ ἀντιλεγόντων, ὡσ εἰ μὴ ’γένεθ’ οὗτοσ ἐν τῇ πόλει μέγασ, οὐκ ἂν ἤστην σκεύη δύο χρησίμω, δοῖδυξ οὐδὲ τορύνη. (Aristotle, Choral, strophe2)
  • οὐκ ἂν ἠχθόμην αὐτοῦ προσφέροντοσ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ὀργαῖσ ἔσοπτρον, ὥσπερ ἐνίοισ προσφέρουσι λουσαμένοισ ἐπ’ οὐδενὶ χρησίμῳ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 6 8:1)
  • ἐμοὶ δ’ εἴ τισ ἐμμελὴσ καὶ κομψὸσ ἀκόλουθοσ ἦν, οὐκ ἂν ἠχθόμην αὐτοῦ προσφέροντοσ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ὀργαῖσ ἔσοπτρον, ὥσπερ ἐνίοισ προσφέρουσι λουσαμένοισ ἐπ’ οὐδενὶ χρησίμῳ. (Plutarch, De cohibenda ira, section 6 2:2)
  • ἀεὶ δὲ τὸν ὑπερέχοντα ἢ ἧττον ἢ μὴ φιλεῖν ἀξιοῦν, καὶ ἐν τῷ χρησίμῳ καὶ ἐν τῷ ἡδεῖ καὶ κατ’ ἀρετήν. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 7 103:2)

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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