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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

  • ὅ τι θεὸσ ἢ μὴ θεὸσ ἢ τὸ μέσον, τίσ φησ’ ἐρευνήσασ βροτῶν μακρότατον πέρασ εὑρεῖν ὃσ τὰ θεῶν ἐσορᾷ δεῦρο καὶ αὖθισ ἐκεῖσε καὶ πάλιν ἀντιλόγοισ πηδῶντ’ ἀνελπίστοισ τύχαισ; (Euripides, Helen, choral, strophe 21)
  • ἀγαθὸν γάρ ἐστι τὸ θεῖον τοὺσ ἀδίκου πολέμου καταρχομένουσ καὶ τὴν αὑτῶν ὑπεροχὴν οὐκ ἐνεγκόντασ ἀνθρωπίνωσ ἀνελπίστοισ περιβαλεῖν συμφοραῖσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 21 2:1)
  • ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ τῶν γυναικῶν ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἀνελπίστοισ εὐημερίαισ ὀλολυγμὸσ πολὺσ καὶ καθ’ ἅπασαν τὴν πόλιν συνδρομαί. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvi, chapter 11 1:2)

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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