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ἐλλιπής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλλιπής ἐλλιπές

Structure: ἐλλιπη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)llei/pw

Sense

  1. wanting, lacking, defective, so much lost, defect, failure

Examples

  • βούλομαι δὲ καὶ τὰ πολιτεύματα ἐξετάσαι τοῦ καλοῦ κἀγαθοῦ τούτου, δι’ ὧν οὐκ ἔσθ’ ὅ τι τῶν δεινοτάτων ἐλλιπὼν φανήσεται· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 61:1)
  • πότερον οὖν ὁ μηδὲν προθυμηθεὶσ ἐργάσασθαι ἀγαθὸν δίκαιόσ ἐστιν εὐδοξεῖν, ἢ ὁ μηδὲν ὧν ἦν δυνατὸσ ἐλλιπών; (Aeschines, Speeches, , section 1184)
  • "οὔτ’ οὖν ἀριθμὸν οὔτε τάξιν οὔτε σύνδεσμον οὔτ’ ἄλλο τῶν ἐλλιπῶν μορίων οὐδὲν οἶμαι τὸ γράμμα σημαίνειν· (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 175)
  • Ἐν δὲ τῷ περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων καὶ τῶν σημαινομένων τόπῳ τέτακται ὁ περὶ λεκτῶν καὶ αὐτοτελῶν καὶ ἀξιωμάτων καὶ συλλογισμῶν λόγοσ καὶ ὁ περὶ ἐλλιπῶν τε καὶ κατηγορημάτων καὶ ὀρθῶν καὶ ὑπτίων. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 63:1)

Synonyms

  1. wanting

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

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