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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

  • εἰ δὲ καὶ τύχην τινὰ τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἑκατέρου τοῖσ σφάλμασι προσοιστέον, ἀνέλπιστοσ μὲν ἡ Πομπηϊού Ῥωμαίοισ, Ἀγησίλαοσ δὲ Λακεδαιμονίουσ ἀκούοντασ καὶ προειδότασ οὐκ εἰάσε φυλάξασθαι τὴν χωλὴν βασιλείαν. (Plutarch, Comparison of Agesilaus and Pompey, chapter 2 1:1)
  • πᾶσι μὲν οὖν περιμάχητοσ ἦν ὁ τόποσ ἀεὶ καὶ βασιλεῦσι καὶ δυνάσταισ, ἡ δὲ Ἀντιγόνου σπουδὴ περὶ αὐτὸν οὐδὲν ἀπέλιπε πάθει τῶν ἐμμανεστάτων ἐρώτων, ἀλλ’ ὅλοσ ἀνήρτητο ταῖσ φροντίσιν ὅπωσ ἀφαιρήσεται δόλῳ τοὺσ ἔχοντασ, ἐπεὶ φανερῶσ ἀνέλπιστοσ ἦν ἡ ἐπιχείρησισ. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 17 1:1)
  • Δημητρίῳ δ’ ἦν ἀνέλπιστοσ εὐτυχία κηδεῦσαι Σελεύκω. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 31 4:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐμὲ μὲν ὁ πολὺσ ἀπολέλοιπεν ἤδη βίοτοσ ἀνέλπιστοσ, οὐδ’ ἔτ’ ἀρκῶ· (Sophocles, choral, antistrophe 26)
  • ἢν γὰρ ἐπὶ τῇ ἐκκρίσι εὐφόρωσ φέρῃ, ἄπυροσ γίγνηται, εὖτε πέσσῃ, εὔχρουσ, εὔσιτοσ · ἢν ἀναβήσσῃ εὐμαρῶσ, εὔσφυκτοσ, εὔτονοσ γίγνηται, ἀνώλεθροσ ὁ νοσέων· ἢν δὲ ἐπιπυρεταίνῃ, καὶ πάντα ἐσ κακὸν τρέπηται, ἀνέλπιστοσ . (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 189)
  • ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐδάκρυεν Ἀλέξανδροσ, κατ̓ ὅτι ἀνέλπιστόσ οἱ ἡ σωτηρίη τοῦ στρατοῦ ἐφαίνετο· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 35 7:1)

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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