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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

  • οὐ γὰρ λῃστρικῶσ τὴν Ἀσίαν καταδραμὼν οὐδ’ ὥσπερ ἁρ́παγμα καὶ λάφυρον εὐτυχίασ ἀνελπίστου σπαράξαι καὶ ἀνασύρασθαι διανοηθείσ, καθάπερ ὕστερον μὲν Ἀννίβασ Ἰταλίαν, πρότερον δὲ Τρῆρεσ Ιὠνίαν καὶ Σκύθαι Μηδίαν ἐπῆλθον· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 8 3:3)
  • καθάπερ δρᾶμα τὴν πρᾶξιν ἡμῶν ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ διαποικίλλουσα κινδυνώδεσιν ἐπεισοδίοισ, εἰσ αὐτὸ συνέδραμε τὸ ἔργον, ὀξὺν ἐπιφέρουσα καὶ δεινὸν ἀνελπίστου περιπετείασ ἀγῶνα. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 30 5:1)
  • ὁ δὲ Κυάνιπποσ τῆσ ἀνελπίστου πράξεωσ αὐτόπτησ γενόμενοσ ἑαυτὸν ἀπέσφαξεν· (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 215)
  • τῆσ ἀνελπίστου πράξεωσ αὐτόπτησ γενόμενοσ ἑαυτὸν ἀπέσφαξεν ὡσ Παρθένιοσ ὁ ποιητήσ. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 21 2:1)
  • οὑτοσὶ δ’ ὁ κοινωνὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ συνεργὸσ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον εὐθὺσ ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ παρὰ τἀδικήματα, ὡσ οὐδὲν εἰδώσ, ἀλλ’ ἐκπεπληγμένοσ καὶ αὐτόσ, ἔπειθεν τὸν πρῳρέα καὶ τοὺσ ναύτασ εἰσ τὸν λέμβον ἐκβαίνειν καὶ ἐκλιπεῖν τὴν ναῦν τὴν ταχίστην, ὡσ ἀνελπίστου τῆσ σωτηρίασ οὔσησ καὶ καταδυσομένησ τῆσ νεὼσ αὐτίκα μάλα, ἵν’, ὅπερ διενοήθησαν, τοῦτ’ ἐπιτελεσθείη καὶ ἡ ναῦσ ἀπόλοιτο καὶ τὰ συμβόλαι’ ἀποστερήσαιεν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 11:1)

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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