Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ζωτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζωτικός ζωτική ζωτικόν

Structure: ζωτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: za/w

Sense

  1. full of life, lively, fond of life
  2. true to life, that look of life

Examples

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ τάδε ἐξήντλησε ἡ νοῦσοσ, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὴν ἀχλὺνἕλε, ὁρέουσι τά τε ἐν τῷ ἠέρι, καὶ γυμνῇ τῇ ψυχῇ γίγνονται μάντιεσ ἀτρεκέεσ· οἱ δὲ ἐσ τοσόνδε λεπτότητοσ ὑγρῶν καὶ τῆσ γνώμησ ἀφιγμένοι οὐ μάλα τοι περιγίγνονται, ἐξηερωμ ένησ ἤδη τῆσ ζωτικῆσ δυνάμιοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 120)
  • "μάλιστα δὲ ταῖσ σβέσεσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ φθοραῖσ ἐμφαίνεται δύναμισ οὐκ ἀμοιροῦσα ζωτικῆσ ἀρχῆσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. full of life

  2. true to life

Related

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

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