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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

  • μετενδὺσ οὖν μέλαιναν ἐσθῆτα καὶ τὸ ξίφοσ ἀπαρτησάμενοσ ἐκ τοῦ αὐχένοσ καθ’ ὁδὸν ἑτέραν, ᾗ μηδένα μοι τῶν πολεμίων ὑπαντιάσειν ᾤμην, ᾔειν εἰσ τὸν ἱππόδρομον, ἄφνω τε φανεὶσ καὶ πρηνὴσ πεσὼν καὶ τὴν γῆν δάκρυσιν φύρων ἐλεεινὸσ ἔδοξα πᾶσιν. (Flavius Josephus, 166:2)
  • ἔφη πρέπειν αὐτοῦ ταῖσ τύχαισ τὸν κόσμον, ἀλλ’ ἐσθῆτι φαύλῃ κεχρημένοσ καὶ κομῶν ἀφ’ ἧσ ἔφυγεν ἡμέρασ, ὑπὲρ ἑβδομήκοντα γεγονὼσ ἔτη βάδην προσῄει, βουλόμενοσ μὲν ἐλεεινὸσ εἶναι, τῷ δὲ οἴκτῳ συμμέμικτο τὸ οἰκεῖον τῆσ ὄψεωσ αὐτοῦ πλέον τὸ φοβερόν, καὶ διέφαινεν ἡ κατήφεια τὸν θυμὸν οὐ τεταπεινωμένον, ἀλλ’ ἐξηγριωμένον ὑπὸ ̣ (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 41 4:1)
  • ἀλλά τισ εἰήν μήτ’ ἄγαν εὐδαίμων, μήτ’ ἐλεεινὸσ ἐγώ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 512)
  • "νῦν μὲν δή μοι, ξεῖνε, πάροσ περ ἐὼν ἐλεεινόσ, ἐν μεγάροισιν ἐμοῖσι φίλοσ τ’ ἔσῃ αἰδοῖόσ τε· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 31:1)
  • ἐλεεινόσ ετ ἀποφράδεσ ἡμέραι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5:19)

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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