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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

  • Ἄλυποι, ὦ Αἰακέ, οὗτοι μόνοι καὶ φαιδροὶ τῶν ἄλλων. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 9:2)
  • "διὰ τί ἄλυποι ἀλλήλοισ εἰσὶν οἱ ἐρέται, · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 425)
  • διὰ τί δὲ ἄλλο ἄλυποι ἀλλήλοισ εἰσὶν οἱ ἐμπλέοντεσ ἢ διότι ἐν τάξει μὲν κάθηνται, ἐν τάξει δὲ προνεύουσιν, ἐν τάξει δ’ ἀναπίπτουσιν, ἐν τάξει δ’ ἐμβαίνουσι καὶ ἐκβαίνουσιν; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 9:2)
  • ἐν δὲ ταῖσ ὁμιλίαισ καὶ τῷ συζῆν καὶ λόγων καὶ πραγμάτων κοινωνεῖν οἳ μὲν ἄρεσκοι δοκοῦσιν εἶναι, οἱ πάντα πρὸσ ἡδονὴν ἐπαινοῦντεσ καὶ οὐθὲν ἀντιτείνοντεσ, ἀλλ’ οἰόμενοι δεῖν ἄλυποι τοῖσ ἐντυγχάνουσιν εἶναι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 119:1)
  • ἄλυποι γάρ εἰσιν αἵ τε μαθηματικαὶ καὶ τῶν κατὰ τὰσ αἰσθήσεισ αἱ διὰ τῆσ ὀσφρήσεωσ, καὶ ἀκροάματα δὲ καὶ ὁράματα πολλὰ καὶ μνῆμαι καὶ ἐλπίδεσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 28:2)

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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