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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)
  • ὁ ἀποστέλλων ἐν θαλάσσῃ ὅμηρα καὶ ἐπιστολὰσ βιβλίνασ ἐπάνω τοῦ ὕδατοσ. πορεύσονται γὰρ ἄγγελοι κοῦφοι πρὸσ ἔθνοσ μετέωρον καὶ ξένον λαὸν καὶ χαλεπόν, τίσ αὐτοῦ ἐπέκεινα̣ ἔθνοσ ἀνέλπιστον καὶ καταπεπατημένον. νῦν οἱ ποταμοὶ τῆσ γῆς (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 18:2)
  • οὐκ ὀκνῶ δέ σοι καὶ διηγήσασθαι ὅ μοι Θεσμόπολισ οὗτοσ ὁ Στωϊκὸσ διηγήσατο συμβὰν αὐτῷ πάνυ γελοῖον καὶ νὴ Δί’ οὐκ ἀνέλπιστον ὡσ ἂν καὶ ἄλλῳ ταὐτὸν συμβαίη. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 33:1)
  • πῶσ εἶπασ, ὦ γεραί’, ἀνέλπιστον λόγον; (Euripides, episode 3:29)
  • τί δῆτα φάσμα τῶν ἀνελπίστων ὁρῶ; (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambics 5:1)
  • 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)
  • ἔτι μᾶλλον ἐδάκρυεν Ἀλέξανδροσ, κατ̓ ὅτι ἀνέλπιστόσ οἱ ἡ σωτηρίη τοῦ στρατοῦ ἐφαίνετο· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 35 7:1)
  • 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)

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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