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ἐλεεινός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεεινός ἐλεεινή ἐλεεινόν

Structure: ἐλεειν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)/leos

Sense

  1. finding pity, pitied or moving pity, pitiable, piteous, piteous, piteous
  2. shewing pity, pitying, of pity, feeling of pity
  3. pitiably

Examples

  • ὦ ἐλεεινοὶ παῖδεσ, ἀκοιμήτων ἁψάμενοι δοράτων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 396 1:1)
  • εἰ δὲ ἠλέουν τοὺσ δημοτικούσ, ὅτε ἦσαν ἐλεεινοί, καὶ καθ̓ ὅσον οἱο͂́ν τε ἦν ἐπικουφίζειν ἐπειρώμην, οὐθέν ἐστι τοῦτο σημεῖον τοῦ πρὸσ ἐκείνουσ ἔχειν οἰκειότερον· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 5:1)
  • Ἐλεεινοὶ τοῦ πάθουσ, ἀξιέπαινοι τῆσ ἀρετῆσ γενόμενοι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5:14)
  • ἐφαίνοντο δὲ τοῖσ πολεμίοισ ἐλεεινοὶ μὲν ἀπὸ τῶνδε, φοβεροὶ δ’ ἀπὸ τῶν βλεμμάτων· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 15 6:7)
  • ἢ οὐκ ἐλεεινοὶ τῶν πέντε μυριάδων τῶν χθὲσ ἀπολομένων ὑπὸ λιμοῦ; (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 6:9)

Synonyms

  1. finding pity

  2. pitiably

Related

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

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