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ἄελπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄελπτος ἄελπτη ἄελπτον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + ελπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. unexpectedly
  2. beyond hope, despaired of, Solon.
  3. hopeless, desperate
  4. beyond all hope

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓ελπτος ἄέλπτη ά̓ελπτον
Genitive ἀέλπτου ἄέλπτης ἀέλπτου
Dative ἀέλπτῳ ἄέλπτῃ ἀέλπτῳ
Accusative ά̓ελπτον ἄέλπτην ά̓ελπτον
Vocative ά̓ελπτε ἄέλπτη ά̓ελπτον
DualN/A/V ἀέλπτω ἄέλπτᾱ ἀέλπτω
G/D ἀέλπτοιν ἄέλπταιν ἀέλπτοιν
PluralNominative ά̓ελπτοι ά̓́ελπται ά̓ελπτα
Genitive ἀέλπτων ἄελπτῶν ἀέλπτων
Dative ἀέλπτοις ἄέλπταις ἀέλπτοις
Accusative ἀέλπτους ἄέλπτᾱς ά̓ελπτα
Vocative ά̓ελπτοι ά̓́ελπται ά̓ελπτα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓ελπτος ἀέλπτου ἀελπτότερος ἀελπτοτέρου ἀελπτότατος ἀελπτοτάτου
Adverb ἀέλπτως ἀελπτότερον ἀελπτότατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἥκεισ ἀέλπτοσ ἐμποδὼν ἐμοῖσ γάμοισ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 2:21)
  • ἑνὸσ γὰρ εἰ λαβοίμεθ’, εὐτυχοῖμεν ἄν, εἴ ποθεν ἀέλπτοσ παραπέσοι σωτηρία κτανοῦσι μὴ θανοῦσιν· (Euripides, episode, anapests 5:8)

Synonyms

  1. unexpectedly

  2. hopeless

Related

Similar forms

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

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