Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἀνέλπιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνέλπιστος ἀνέλπιστη ἀνέλπιστον

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

Etym.: e)lpi/zw

Sense

  1. unhoped for, unlooked for, the hopelessness
  2. having no hope, hopeless, having no hope or not expecting that . .
  3. leaving no hope, hopeless, desperate, despair, more desperate

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

  • ὥσπερ εἰ ἀνδριάντοσ ἐρῶν ἐτύγχανεσ καὶ ᾤου τεύξεσθαι ὑπολαμβάνων ἄνθρωπον εἶναι, ἐγὼ δὲ κατιδὼν ὡσ λίθοσ ἢ χαλκὸσ εἰή ἐμήνυσα πρόσ σε ὑπ̓ εὐνοίασ ὅτι ἀδυνάτων ἐρᾷσ, καὶ τότε δύσνουν ἐμὲ εἶναι ᾤου ἂν σαυτῷ, διότι σε οὐκ εἰών ἐξαπατᾶσθαι ἀλλόκοτα καὶ ἀνέλπιστα ἐλπίζοντα. (Lucian, 105:7)

Synonyms

  1. having no hope

  2. leaving no hope

Related

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

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