κύριος: Difference between revisions

|mdlsjtxt=κύ¯ριος, η, ον [[κῦρος]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> of persons, having [[power]] or [[authority]] [[over]], [[lord]] or [[master]] of, c. gen., Pind., [[attic]]:— κύριός εἰμι, c. inf., I [[have]] [[authority]] to do, am entitled to do, Aesch., etc.; κυριώτεροι [[δοῦναι]] [[better]] [[able]] to [[give]], Thuc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> absol. having [[authority]], [[authoritative]], [[supreme]], κ. [[εἶναι]] to [[have]] [[authority]], Plat.; τὸ κύριον the [[ruling]] [[power]] in a [[state]], τὰ κύρια the authorities, Soph., Dem.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> not of persons, [[authoritative]], [[decisive]], [[dominant]], [[supreme]], δίκαι Eur.; [[μῦθος]] κυριώτερος of [[more]] [[authority]], Eur., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> opp. to [[ἄκυρος]], [[authorised]], ratified, [[valid]], νόμοι, δόγματα Dem.; κ. [[θέσθαι]] or ποιεῖσθαί τι to [[appoint]] by [[authority]], Soph., Dem.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> of times, etc., [[fixed]], ordained, appointed, Hdt., Eur., etc.;—so, τὸ κύριον the appointed [[time]], Aesch.:—at [[Athens]], [[κυρία]] [[ἐκκλησία]] a [[regular]] or [[ordinary]] [[assembly]], opp. to [[σύγκλητος]] [[ἐκκλησία]] (one [[specially]] summoned), Ar.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> [[legitimate]], [[regular]], [[proper]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">5.</b> of words, [[authorised]], [[vernacular]], Lat. [[proprius]], Arist.<br />B. as [[substantive]], <br />[[κύριος]], ὁ,<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[lord]], [[master]], Lat. [[dominus]], of gods, Pind., Soph., etc.: the [[head]] of a [[family]], [[master]] of a [[house]], Aesch., etc.:—[[later]], κύριε was a [[form]] of [[respectful]] [[address]], like our sir, NTest.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[κυρία]], ἡ, [[mistress]] or [[lady]] of the [[house]], Lat. [[domina]], Menand., etc.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> ὁ Κύριος, the Lord, = Hebr. Jehovah, Lxx.; in NTest. esp. of Christ.