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ἄθλιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄθλιος

Structure: ἀθλι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: attic contr. of epic a)e/qlios, see also a)/eqlon, a)=qlon

Sense

  1. gaining the prize, running for it, race-, of discord
  2. struggling, wretched, miserable, miserably
  3. pitiful, wretched
  4. wretched, sorry, wretched

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓θλιος ἀθλίᾱ ά̓θλιον
Genitive ἀθλίου ἀθλίᾱς ἀθλίου
Dative ἀθλίῳ ἀθλίᾱͅ ἀθλίῳ
Accusative ά̓θλιον ἀθλίᾱν ά̓θλιον
Vocative ά̓θλιε ἀθλίᾱ ά̓θλιον
DualN/A/V ἀθλίω ἀθλίᾱ ἀθλίω
G/D ἀθλίοιν ἀθλίαιν ἀθλίοιν
PluralNominative ά̓θλιοι ά̓θλιαι ά̓θλια
Genitive ἀθλίων ἀθλιῶν ἀθλίων
Dative ἀθλίοις ἀθλίαις ἀθλίοις
Accusative ἀθλίους ἀθλίᾱς ά̓θλια
Vocative ά̓θλιοι ά̓θλιαι ά̓θλια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓θλιος ἀθλίου ἀθλιώτερος ἀθλιωτέρου ἀθλιώτατος ἀθλιωτάτου
Adverb ἀθλίως ἀθλιώτερον ἀθλιώτατα

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

  • εἶτ’ ἐγένετ’ αὖθισ ἀθλιώτατοσ βροτῶν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 1:27)
  • οὕτωσ ἂν εἰήν ἀθλιώτατοσ βροτῶν. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 3:14)
  • καὶ ἐν Ναννίῳ εἰ Εὐβούλου τὸ δρᾶμα καὶ μὴ Φιλίππου, φησὶν ὅστισ λέχη γὰρ σκότια νυμφεύει λάθρᾳ, πῶσ οὐχὶ πάντων ἐστὶν ἀθλιώτατοσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 24 1:6)
  • τοῦτο δ’ οὐκ ἂν μάλιστα θαυμάσαισ αὐτῶν, ἀλλ’ ὅτι, τῆσ ἀρετῆσ καὶ τῆσ εὐδαιμονίασ παραγιγνομένησ, πολλάκισ οὐδ’ αἰσθάνεσθαι τὸν κτησάμενον οἰόνται, διαλεληθέναι δ’ αὑτόν, ὅτι μικρῷ πρόσθεν ἀθλιώτατοσ ὢν καὶ ἀφρονέστατοσ νῦν ὁμοῦ φρόνιμοσ καὶ μακάριοσ γέγονεν. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 91)
  • καὶ ὅμωσ τό γε δυστυχέστατοσ εἶναι ἀνθρώπων οὐδαμῇ ἐκφεύγω, ὅτε δὴ προαγομένησ μὲν τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐπὶ ταύτασ τὰσ συμφορὰσ οὐδεὶσ ἐμοῦ ἤρχετο γίγνεσθαι δυσδαιμονέστεροσ, μεθισταμένησ δὲ πάλιν εἰσ τὸ ἀσφαλὲσ ἁπάντων ἐγὼ ἀθλιώτατοσ. (Andocides, Speeches, 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. struggling

  2. pitiful

  3. wretched

Related

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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