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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

  • εἰσ ἔλεγχον νηπιοκτόνου διατάγματοσ, ἔδωκασ αὐτοῖσ δαψιλὲσ ὕδωρ ἀνελπίστωσ, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 11:7)
  • ἤδη δὲ καὶ τούτου κακῶσ ἔχοντοσ, καὶ λόγχῃ μὲν εἰσ τὸ στῆθοσ, ξίφει δὲ εἰσ τὸν βραχίονα τετρωμένου, προσεβοήθησεν ἀπὸ θατέρου κέρωσ Ἀγησίπολισ ὁ βασιλεὺσ τῶν Σπαρτιατῶν, καὶ περιεποίησεν ἀνελπίστωσ αὐτοὺσ ἀμφοτέρουσ· (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 4 5:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ μόνον ἐν τῷ λοιπῷ βίῳ μεγάλα μὲν κατορθοῦντεσ, μεγάλα δὲ σφαλλόμενοι, πλείστων δὲ ἐπικρατοῦντεσ, πλεῖστα δὲ ἀποβάλλοντεσ, ἀπροσδοκήτωσ δὲ πταίοντεσ, ἀνελπίστωσ δὲ πάλιν ἀναφέροντεσ διετέλεσαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατέστρεψαν, ὁ μὲν ἁλοὺσ ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων, ὁ δὲ ἔγγιστα τοῦ παθεῖν τοῦτο γενόμενοσ. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 1 8:1)
  • δυσθυμίη, ἀνελπίστωσ ἑωυτῆσ εἶχεν. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 91)
  • τοῦτο πάντασ μέν, ὡσ εἰκόσ, ἠνίασε τοὺσ περὶ Ἀντώνιον ἀνελπίστωσ ἐν ἀρχῇ πληγέντασ· (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 39 1:1)

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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