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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

  • τί δῆτα φάσμα τῶν ἀνελπίστων ὁρῶ; (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambics 5:1)
  • διὸ καὶ πολλὰ τῶν ἀνελπίστων κατορθώσασ ἐν οἷσ ἐτόλμησεν, οὐκ ἐλάττονα δοκεῖ τῶν δυνατῶν ἐγκαταλιπεῖν δι’ εὐλάβειαν. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 10 3:1)
  • ὁ γὰρ φόβοσ βουλευτικοὺσ ποιεῖ, καίτοι οὐδεὶσ βουλεύεται περὶ τῶν ἀνελπίστων· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 5 14:4)
  • τοιγάρτοι τί τῶν ἀνελπίστων καὶ ἀπροσδοκήτων ἐφ’ ἡμῶν οὐ γέγονεν; (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 132 1:1)
  • ἐπὶ γὰρ τούτων ἡ μεταβολὴ τῆσ τύχησ καὶ τὸ μέγεθοσ τῶν ἀνελπίστων ἀκληρημάτων ἐν ὄψει κείμενον εὐλόγωσ τοὺσ ὁρῶντασ ἐποίει συμπάσχειν τοῖσ ἠτυχηκόσι. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 36 3:1)

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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