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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

  • ἔνθα δή, ὦ φιλότησ, πολλὰ καὶ ἐλεεινὰ ἦν καὶ ἀκοῦσαι καὶ ἰδεῖν μαστίγων τε γὰρ ὁμοῦ ψόφοσ ἠκούετο καὶ οἰμωγὴ τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ πυρὸσ ὀπτωμένων καὶ στρέβλαι καὶ κύφωνεσ καὶ τροχοί, καὶ ἡ Χίμαιρα ἐσπάραττεν καὶ ὁ Κέρβεροσ ἐδάρδαπτεν. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 14:2)
  • ἦν δ’ ἄρρενα μὲν δύο, θῆλυ δὲ ἕν, οὐ πάνυ συμφρονοῦντα τῶν κακῶν τὸ μέγεθοσ διὰ τὴν ἡλικίαν ᾗ καὶ μᾶλλον ἐλεεινὰ πρὸσ τὴν μεταβολὴν τῆσ ἀναισθησίασ ἦν, ὥστε μικροῦ τὸν Περσέα βαδίζειν παρορώμενον· (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 33 4:1)
  • ᾤμωξεν δ’ ἐλεεινὰ πατὴρ φίλοσ, ἀμφὶ δὲ λαοὶ κωκυτῷ τ’ εἴχοντο καὶ οἰμωγῇ κατὰ ἄστυ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1896)
  • Ὧσ ἄρ’ ἔφη, ἐλεεινὰ καταπροχέουσα παρειῶν δάκρυα· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 19:1)
  • οἱ δ’ ἐλεεινὰ χεροῖν σφέασ ἀμφιβαλόντεσ δακρυόειν ἀγάπαζον, ἵν’ ἄνδιχα δῆθεν ἕκαστοσ θυμὸν ἀποφθίσειαν ἐνὶ ψαμάθοισι πεσόντεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 20:36)

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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