ΚΟΜΨΟΣ, κομψος
KOMPSOS, kompsos
Sounds Like: KOM-psoss
Translations: elegant, refined, clever, skillful, neat, well-groomed
From the root: ΚΟΜΨΟΣ
Part of Speech: Adjective
Explanation: This word describes something or someone as elegant, refined, or clever. It can refer to a person who is skillful or well-groomed, or to something that is neat and well-arranged. It implies a sense of sophistication or ingenuity.
Inflection: Masculine, Nominative, Singular
Strong’s number: G2889 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
- The Life of Flavius Josephus — 9:33
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΟΜΨΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΟΜΨΟΤΕΡΟΝ — better, more elegant, more refined, more skillful, more clever, more well-off
- ΚΟΜΨΟΥ — of Kompsos, of the elegant one, of the refined one, of the clever one
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