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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

  • πρὶν γὰρ ὑπερβῆναι τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἐνάρκων τε καὶ μετέωροι πρὸσ φυγὴν ἦσαν, ἦν δὲ ἰδεῖν τοὺσ πάλαι σοβαροὺσ καὶ τοῖσ ἀσεβήμασιν ἀλαζόνασ τότε ταπεινοὺσ καὶ τρέμοντασ, ὡσ ἐλεεινὴν εἶναι καίπερ ἐν πονηροτάτοισ τὴν μεταβολήν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 449:1)
  • οἱ γὰρ οὕτωσ ἀχθόμενοι τῷ θανάτῳ τῆσ μητρόσ, ἐπειδὴ κἀκείνην καὶ σφᾶσ αὐτοὺσ κακῶσ ἔλεγεν, ἐφιλονείκουν ἐλεεινὴν μέν, ὥσπερ ἦν, ἀποφαίνειν τὴν καταστροφὴν τῆσ μητρόσ, ἐλεεινοὺσ δὲ αὐτούσ, οἳ τοῖσ ἐκείνησ φονεῦσιν ἀναγκάζονται συζῆν καὶ τῶν αὐτῶν μεταλαμβάνειν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 83:1)
  • ὄντων δὲ τῶν πλείστων ἐπιφανῶν διὰ τὰσ τῶν πατέρων προαγωγάσ, ἐπιφανῆ καὶ τὴν τούτων ἀτυχίαν συνέβαινε γίνεσθαι καὶ παρὰ πᾶσιν ἐλεεινήν. (Polybius, Histories, book 23, ii. res macedoniae 11:1)

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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