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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

  • ὁ δὲ λαγὼσ κοῦφόσ τέ ἐστιν καὶ δασεῖσ ἔχει τοὺσ πόδασ, ὥστε ἀλύπωσ θεῖν ἐν τῷ πάγῳ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 14 6:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἄλλοι λεχθέντεσ ἅψασθαι γάμων θείων καὶ θεοῖσ ἐράσμιοι γενέσθαι, Πηλεῖσ καὶ Ἀγχῖσαι καὶ Ὠρίωνεσ καὶ Ἠμαθίωνεσ, οὐ πάντωσ ἀγαπητῶσ οὐδ’ ἀλύπωσ διεβίωσαν. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 9 1:1)
  • οὐδ’ ἀλύπωσ διεβίωσαν. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 9 2:3)
  • καὶ διεκομίσθη πρὸσ τόν ἄνδρα καὶ συνδιήνεγκεν αὐτῷ τόν ἐπὶ ξένησ βίον ἀλύπωσ καὶ ἱλαρῶσ. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 38 4:2)
  • ὁ δὴ πολυφωνότατοσ ἁπάντων ποιητῶν Ὅμηροσ, ὅταν μὲν ὡρ́αν ὄψεωσ εὐμόρφου καὶ κάλλοσ ἡδονῆσ ἐπαγωγὸν ἐπιδείξασθαι βούληται, τῶν τε φωνηέντων τοῖσ κρατίστοισ χρήσεται καὶ τῶν ἡμιφώνων τοῖσ μαλακωτάτοισ, καὶ οὐ καταπυκνώσει τοῖσ ἀφώνοισ τὰσ συλλαβὰσ οὐδὲ συγκόψει τοὺσ ἤχουσ παρατιθεὶσ ἀλλήλοισ τὰ δυσέκφορα, πραεῖαν δέ τινα ποιήσει τὴν ἁρμονίαν τῶν γραμμάτων καὶ ῥέουσαν ἀλύπωσ διὰ τῆσ ἀκοῆσ, ὡσ ἔχει ταυτί ἣ δ’ ἰέν ἐκ θαλάμοιο περίφρων Πηνελόπεια Ἀρτέμιδι ἰκέλη ἠὲ χρυσῇ Ἀφροδίτῃ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1615)

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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