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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

  • τρόπισ δ’ ἐλείφθη ποικίλων ἁρμοσμάτων, ἐφ’ ἧσ ἐσώθην μόλισ ἀνελπίστῳ τύχῃ Ἑλένη τε, Τροίασ ἣν ἀποσπάσασ ἔχω. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 1:3)
  • πολλοῖσ δὲ καὶ δάκρυα ἐπὶ τῷ ἀνελπίστῳ προεχύθη ἀκούσια. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 13 2:3)
  • κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν νύκτα τὰσ δυνάμεισ ἀμφοτέρασ συνέβη περιπεσεῖν παραλόγῳ τινὶ συμφορᾷ καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνελπίστῳ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 64 5:3)

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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