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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[venerable]], [[honoured]], [[holy]], [[noble]], also [[haughty]], [[proud]] (h. Cer.).<br />Compounds: Many compp., e.g. <b class="b3">σεμνό-μαντις</b> m. <b class="b2">venerable seer</b> (S.; Risch IF 59, 273), <b class="b3">ἄ-σεμνος</b> [[unworthy]], [[ignoble]] (Arist. etc.; Frisk Adj. priv. 15).<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">σεμν-ότης</b> f. <b class="b2">dignity, noble being, proud</b> (Att.), 2. <b class="b3">-εῖον</b> n. <b class="b2">holy building</b> (Ph.; after <b class="b3">ἀρχεῖον</b> a.o.); 3. <b class="b3">-ύνομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-ύνω</b>, also w. <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπερ-</b> a. o. <b class="b2">to allege ones dignity, to exalt oneself, to be proud</b> resp. <b class="b2">to make venerable, to exalt, to praise</b> (Hdt., Att.; after <b class="b3">θρασύνομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-ύνω</b>, <b class="b3">αἰσχύνομαι</b> a.o.; cf. Fraenkel Denom. 37); to this, prob. as backformations (cf. Strömberg Prefix Studies 98), <b class="b3">ὑπέρ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπί-σεμνος</b> (late); 4. <b class="b3">-όω</b> = <b class="b3">-ύνω</b> (Hdt.) with <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> n. [[dignity]], [[majesty]] (Epicur.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1086] <b class="b2">*ti̯egʷ-</b> <b class="b2">with shame, respect withdraw for</b><br />Etymology: Formation as <b class="b3">ἁγνός</b> a. o.; old verbal adj. (from <b class="b3">*σεβ-νός</b>) to [[σέβομαι]] (s. v.) with possible connection to the <b class="b3">σ-</b>stem in <b class="b3">σέβας</b> (cf. Benveniste Origines 33). -- On <b class="b3">σεμνός</b> a. cogn. in Plato de Vries Mnem. 3: 12, 151 ff. | |etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[venerable]], [[honoured]], [[holy]], [[noble]], also [[haughty]], [[proud]] (h. Cer.).<br />Compounds: Many compp., e.g. <b class="b3">σεμνό-μαντις</b> m. <b class="b2">venerable seer</b> (S.; Risch IF 59, 273), <b class="b3">ἄ-σεμνος</b> [[unworthy]], [[ignoble]] (Arist. etc.; Frisk Adj. priv. 15).<br />Derivatives: 1. <b class="b3">σεμν-ότης</b> f. <b class="b2">dignity, noble being, proud</b> (Att.), 2. <b class="b3">-εῖον</b> n. <b class="b2">holy building</b> (Ph.; after <b class="b3">ἀρχεῖον</b> a.o.); 3. <b class="b3">-ύνομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-ύνω</b>, also w. <b class="b3">ἀπο-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">ὑπερ-</b> a. o. <b class="b2">to allege ones dignity, to exalt oneself, to be proud</b> resp. <b class="b2">to make venerable, to exalt, to praise</b> (Hdt., Att.; after <b class="b3">θρασύνομαι</b>, <b class="b3">-ύνω</b>, <b class="b3">αἰσχύνομαι</b> a.o.; cf. Fraenkel Denom. 37); to this, prob. as backformations (cf. Strömberg Prefix Studies 98), <b class="b3">ὑπέρ-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπί-σεμνος</b> (late); 4. <b class="b3">-όω</b> = <b class="b3">-ύνω</b> (Hdt.) with <b class="b3">-ωμα</b> n. [[dignity]], [[majesty]] (Epicur.).<br />Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1086] <b class="b2">*ti̯egʷ-</b> <b class="b2">with shame, respect withdraw for</b><br />Etymology: Formation as <b class="b3">ἁγνός</b> a. o.; old verbal adj. (from <b class="b3">*σεβ-νός</b>) to [[σέβομαι]] (s. v.) with possible connection to the <b class="b3">σ-</b>stem in <b class="b3">σέβας</b> (cf. Benveniste Origines 33). -- On <b class="b3">σεμνός</b> a. cogn. in Plato de Vries Mnem. 3: 12, 151 ff. | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=[[σεμνός]], ή, όν [[σέβομαι]]<br />[[revered]], [[august]], [[holy]], [[awful]]:<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[properly]] of [[certain]] gods; at [[Athens]] esp. of the Furies, σεμναὶ θεαί or Σεμναί, Trag.; ς. τέλη [[their]] rites, Trag.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> then of things [[divine]], Hhymn., Trag.; ς. [[βίος]] a [[life]] [[devoted]] to the gods, Eur.; σεμνὰ φθέγγεσθαι = εὔφημα, Aesch.; τὸ ς. [[holiness]], Dem.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> of [[human]] beings, [[reverend]], [[august]], [[solemn]], [[stately]], [[majestic]], Hdt., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">2.</b> of things, Aesch., etc.; οὐδὲν ς. [[nothing]] [[very]] [[wonderful]], Arist.; [[σεμνόν]] ἐστι, c. inf., 'tis a [[noble]], [[fine]] [[thing]] to . . , Plat.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> in bad [[sense]], [[proud]], [[haughty]], Trag.: —in [[contempt]] or [[irony]], [[solemn]], [[pompous]], [[grand]], Aesch., etc.; σεμνὸν βλέπειν to [[look]] [[grave]] and [[solemn]], Eur.; ὡς ς. [[οὑπίτριπτος]] how [[grand]] the [[rascal]] is! Ar.; ὡς ς. ὁ [[κατάρατος]] Ar.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> adv. -νῶς, Eur., etc.: comp. -ότερον, Xen. | |||
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