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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

  • τουτέοισι ἢν κοιλίη ἐκταραχθῇ, ἀνέλπιστοι · ἢν δὲ ἐσ ὑγείην τρέπηται, τὰ ἐναντία τοῖσι ὀλεθρίοισι ἐπιφοιτῇ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 158)
  • τῇδε καὶ ἀνέλπιστοι οἱ ἄνθρωποι, ὅτι περ ὁ ἰητρὸσ οὐ πρὸσ τὰσ ἀρχὰσ τὰσ ἀσθενεστάτασ τοῦ πάθεοσ τῇ τέχνῃ χρέεται, Ῥαθυμίῃ καὶ ἀγνοίῃ τῶν καμνόντων τῆσ ξυμφορῆσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 366)
  • ἐλπίδεσ ἐν ζωοῖσιν, ἀνέλπιστοι δὲ θανόντεσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 36)
  • εὐθὺσ γὰρ δὴ ἀνέλπιστοι οὖσαι τοῦ ἑλεῖν οὐ πείσονται τοῦτο. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 7 11:2)
  • ὁ μὲν δὴ τάδ’ ἔπρασσεν, ὁ δὲ Μαγκῖνοσ, ἅμ’ ἑῴ τῶν Καρχηδονίων αὐτῷ πανταχόθεν ἐπιπιπτόντων, πεντακοσίουσ μέν, οὓσ μόνουσ εἶχεν ἐνόπλουσ, περιέστησε τοῖσ γυμνοῖσ τρισχιλίοισ οὖσι, τιτρωσκόμενοσ δὲ δι’ ἐκείνων καὶ συνωθούμενοσ ἐπὶ τὸ τεῖχοσ ἤδη κατεκρημνίζετο, καὶ αἱ νῆεσ ὤφθησαν αἱ τοῦ Σκιπίωνοσ, ῥοθίῳ τε φοβερῷ καταπλέουσαι καὶ μεσταὶ πανταχόθεν ὁπλιτῶν ἐφεστώτων, Καρχηδονίοισ μὲν ᾐσθημένοισ διὰ τῶν αἰχμαλώτων οὐκ ἀνέλπιστοι, Ῥωμαίοισ δ’ ἀγνοοῦσιν ἀδόκητον σωτηρίαν φέρουσαι· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 17 3:6)

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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