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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

  • ὁ ἀποστέλλων ἐν θαλάσσῃ ὅμηρα καὶ ἐπιστολὰσ βιβλίνασ ἐπάνω τοῦ ὕδατοσ. πορεύσονται γὰρ ἄγγελοι κοῦφοι πρὸσ ἔθνοσ μετέωρον καὶ ξένον λαὸν καὶ χαλεπόν, τίσ αὐτοῦ ἐπέκεινα̣ ἔθνοσ ἀνέλπιστον καὶ καταπεπατημένον. νῦν οἱ ποταμοὶ τῆσ γῆς (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 18:2)
  • οὐκ ὀκνῶ δέ σοι καὶ διηγήσασθαι ὅ μοι Θεσμόπολισ οὗτοσ ὁ Στωϊκὸσ διηγήσατο συμβὰν αὐτῷ πάνυ γελοῖον καὶ νὴ Δί’ οὐκ ἀνέλπιστον ὡσ ἂν καὶ ἄλλῳ ταὐτὸν συμβαίη. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 33:1)
  • πῶσ εἶπασ, ὦ γεραί’, ἀνέλπιστον λόγον; (Euripides, episode 3:29)
  • "Τοῦ δὲ πρὸσ τὸ ἀνέλπιστον τοῦ θεάματοσ καταπλαγέντοσ καὶ χάριν ὁμολογοῦντοσ, παῦε, ἔφη ὁ Μακέντησ, ἄλλον με ποιῶν σεαυτοῦ· (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 52:2)
  • καὶ τότε τοῖσ Ἀθηναίοισ ἀνέλπιστον ἦν τὸ κατὰ γῆν σωθήσεσθαι, ἢν μή τι παρὰ λόγον γίγνηται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 26 6:8)

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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