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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

  • Ἔστι γάρ τισ, ὦ μῆτερ, ἐν οὐρανῷ θεὸσ ἀθλιώτεροσ ἐμοῦ; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 1:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἕτεροσ ἦν Φοίνικοσ ἀθλιώτεροσ. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:20)
  • οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδεὶσ οἶκοσ ἀθλιώτεροσ τῶν Τανταλείων οὐδ’ ἔφυ ποτ’ ἐκγόνων. (Euripides, choral, lyric 1:2)
  • ἐγὼ μὲν οὖν οὐκ οἶδα θνητῶν ὅστισ ἀθλιώτεροσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 3:18)
  • εἰ δὲ τῷ ξένῳ τούτῳ προσήκει Λαί̈ου τι συγγενέσ, τίσ τοῦδέ γ’ ἀνδρόσ ἐστιν ἀθλιώτεροσ; (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 4:8)

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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