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ἄλυπος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλυπος

Structure: ἀλυπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lu/ph

Sense

  1. without pain, without the pains, free from pain
  2. not paining, causing no pain

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • τὴν ἀληθινὴν φιλοσοφίαν, μὴ τὸ θεωρητικὸν αὐτῆσ μόνον ἀγαπῶν ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ πρακτικόν, μηδ’ ἀφ’ ὧν αὐτὸσ ἄλυπον ἕξει βίον, ταῦτα προαιρούμενοσ, ἀλλ’ ἐξ ὧν πολλοὺσ ὠφελήσει, παρακελευσαίμην ἂν αὐτῷ τὴν ἐκείνου τοῦ ῥήτοροσ μιμεῖσθαι προαίρεσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 4 2:1)
  • ἴσαν δ’ ἔσ τε τὸν ὄλβιον τόν τε χείρονα δῶκ’ ἔχειν οἴνου τέρψιν ἄλυπον· (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ Σικυώνιοσ ἐκεῖνοσ ἱπποτρόφοσ εὖ φρονῶν ἔδωκε τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν θήλειαν ἵππον δρομάδα δῶρον, ἵνα μὴ οἱ ἕποιθ’ ὑπὸ Ἴλιον ἠνεμόεσσαν ἀλλὰ τέρποιτο μένων, εἰσ βαθεῖαν εὐπορίαν καὶ σχολὴν ἄλυπον ἀνακλίνασ ἑαυτόν· (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 1 1:2)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ Σικυώνιοσ ἐκεῖνοσ ἱπποτρόφοσ εὖ φρονῶν ἔδωκε τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν θήλειαν ἵππον δρομάδα δῶρον, ἵνα μὴ οἱ ἕποιθ’ ὑπὸ Ἴλιον ἠνεμόεσσαν ἀλλ’ αὐτοῦ τέρποιτο μένων εἰσ βαθεῖαν εὐπορίαν καὶ σχολὴν ἄλυπον ἀνακλίνασ ἑαυτόν· (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 1 2:2)
  • σκώμματοσ μέτρον ἔστω τὸ ἄλυπον ἐπὶ πᾶσιν. (Lucian, Saturnalia, 2:7)

Synonyms

  1. without pain

  2. not paining

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

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