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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

  • νῦν ὁ βίοσ ἔστ’ ἐλεεινότεροσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 1482)
  • ἔρημοσ γὰρ ὢν ὁ ξένοσ ἑταίρων τε καὶ συγγενῶν ἐλεεινότεροσ ἀνθρώποισ καὶ θεοῖσ· (Plato, Laws, book 5 21:2)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἐλεεινότερόσ περ, ἔτλην δ’ οἷ’ οὔ πώ τισ ἐπιχθόνιοσ βροτὸσ ἄλλοσ, ἀνδρὸσ παιδοφόνοιο ποτὶ στόμα χεῖρ’ ὀρέγεσθαι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 48:23)

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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