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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From εὐ- (eu-) + πρέπω (prépō) + -ής (-ḗs)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eu̯.pre.pɛ̌ːs/ → /eɸ.preˈpis/ → /ef.preˈpis/
Adjective
εὐπρεπής • (euprepḗs) m or f (neuter εὐπρεπές); third declension
- good-looking, goodly, comely
- decent, seemly, fitting, becoming, glorious
- specious, plausible
Declension
Descendants
Further reading
- εὐπρεπής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “εὐπρεπής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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- beautiful idem, page 68.
- becoming idem, page 68.
- befitting idem, page 69.
- brave idem, page 93.
- bright idem, page 98.
- brilliant idem, page 98.
- buxom idem, page 107.
- colourable idem, page 144.
- comely idem, page 145.
- convenient idem, page 173.
- correct idem, page 174.
- creditable idem, page 183.
- decent idem, page 200.
- due idem, page 255.
- fair idem, page 302.
- felicitous idem, page 314.
- fine idem, page 321.
- fit idem, page 323.
- flashy idem, page 326.
- glorious idem, page 363.
- goodly idem, page 367.
- handsome idem, page 383.
- happy idem, page 384.
- incumbent idem, page 431.
- magnificent idem, page 507.
- meet idem, page 522.
- meretricious idem, page 526.
- modest idem, page 538.
- moral idem, page 540.
- plausible idem, page 618.
- proper idem, page 653.
- proud idem, page 653.
- resplendent idem, page 704.
- right idem, page 714.
- seemly idem, page 749.
- showy idem, page 770.
- smart idem, page 786.
- specious idem, page 799.
- splendid idem, page 803.
- spruce idem, page 806.
- suitable idem, page 836.
- tawdry idem, page 857.
- tinsel idem, page 877.