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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

  • ταραχὴν καὶ διάτασιν τοῦ πνεύματοσ, ἀλύπῳ τε χρῆται τῷ περιττώματι, κἂν ἀκαιρία τισ ἢ χρεία κωλύσῃ τὸν περίπατον, οὐδέν ἐστι πρᾶγμα· (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 16 12:2)
  • ὃν ἐγὼ μετὰ τῆσ ἐμαυτοῦ τέχνησ καὶ τῆσ Ἠλείων πόλεωσ σοφῆσ καὶ ἀγαθῆσ βουλευσάμενοσ ἱδρυσάμην, ἥμερον καὶ σεμνὸνἐν ἀλύπῳ σχήματι, τὸν βίου καὶ ζωῆσ καὶ ξυμπάντων δοτῆρα τῶν ἀγαθῶν, κοινὸν ἀνθρώπων καὶ πατέρα καὶ σωτῆρα καὶ φύλακα, ὡσ δυνατὸν ἦν θνητῷ διανοηθέντι μιμήσασθαι τὴν θείαν καὶ ἀμήχανον φύσιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 95:2)
  • Δότε μοι ἕνα νέον κατὰ ταύτην τὴν ἐπιβολὴν ἐληλυθότα εἰσ σχολήν, τούτου τοῦ πράγματοσ ἀθλητὴν γενόμενον καὶ λέγοντα ὅτι "ἐμοὶ τὰ μὲν ἄλλα πάντα χαιρέτω, ἀρκεῖ δ’ εἰ ἐξέσται ποτὲ ἀπαραποδίστῳ καὶ ἀλύπῳ διαγαγεῖν καὶ ἀνατεῖναι τὸν τράχηλον πρὸσ τὰ πράγματα ὡσ ἐλεύθερον καὶ εἰσ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀναβλέπειν ὡσ φίλον τοῦ θεοῦ μηδὲν φοβούμενον τῶν συμβῆναι δυναμένων. (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 29:1)

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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