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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

  • λάβε τὰ ἐκ τῆσ αἰχμαλωσίασ παρὰ τῶν ἀρχόντων καὶ παρὰ τῶν χρησίμων αὐτῆσ καὶ παρὰ τῶν ἐπεγνωκότων αὐτὴν καὶ εἰσελεύσῃ σὺ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἐσ τὸν οἶκον Ἰωσίου τοῦ Σοφονίου τοῦ ἥκοντοσ ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 6:10)
  • τῆσ δὲ φρονήσεώσ ἐστι τὸ βουλεύσασθαι, τὸ κρῖναι τὰ ἀγαθὰ καὶ τὰ κακὰ καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν τῷ βίῳ αἱρετὰ καὶ φευκτά, τὸ χρῆσθαι πᾶσι καλῶσ τοῖσ ὑπάρχουσιν ἀγαθοῖσ, τὸ ὁμιλῆσαι ὀρθῶσ, τὸ συνιδεῖν τοὺσ καιρούσ, τὸ ἀγχίνωσ χρήσασθαι καὶ λόγῳ καὶ ἔργῳ, τὸ τὴν ἐμπειρίαν ἔχειν τῶν χρησίμων πάντων. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 14:1)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἐπὶ μὲν τῆσ ἑρμηνείασ τοιοῦτόσ ἐστιν, ἐν δὲ τοῖσ πράγμασιν ἄκαιρόσ τισ καὶ μακρόσ, συνέστραπται δὲ εἴ τισ καὶ ἄλλοσ καὶ πεπύκνωται τοῖσ νοήμασι, καὶ τοσούτου δεῖ τῶν οὐκ ἀναγκαίων τι λέγειν, ὥστε καὶ πολλὰ καὶ τῶν χρησίμων ἂν δόξειε παραλιπεῖν, οὐ μὰ Δία ἀσθενείᾳ εὑρέσεωσ αὐτὸ ποιῶν, ἀλλὰ συμμετρήσει τοῦ χρόνου, πρὸσ ὃν ἔδει γενέσθαι τοὺσ λόγουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 51)
  • ἡμεῖσ γὰρ ὦ πάντεσ ἀστοὶ λόγων κατάρχομεν τῇ πόλει χρησίμων· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, antistrophe 13)
  • ἄμεινον μὲν ἦν, ὦ πάτερ, ἐν Δελφοῖσ ἢ Κολοφῶνι τὰ τοιαῦτα ποιεῖν, ἁπάντων μοι τῶν χρησίμων παρόντων, ὡσ ἔθοσ. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 30:7)

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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