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ἐπίπονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίπονος ἐπίπονον

Structure: ἐπιπον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. painful, toilsome, laborious, a hard task
  2. laborious, patient of toil
  3. portending distress

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἐπίπονος ἐπίπονον
Genitive ἐπιπόνου ἐπιπόνου
Dative ἐπιπόνῳ ἐπιπόνῳ
Accusative ἐπίπονον ἐπίπονον
Vocative ἐπίπονε ἐπίπονον
DualN/A/V ἐπιπόνω ἐπιπόνω
G/D ἐπιπόνοιν ἐπιπόνοιν
PluralNominative ἐπίπονοι ἐπίπονα
Genitive ἐπιπόνων ἐπιπόνων
Dative ἐπιπόνοις ἐπιπόνοις
Accusative ἐπιπόνους ἐπίπονα
Vocative ἐπίπονοι ἐπίπονα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἐπίπονος ἐπιπόνου ἐπιπονώτερος ἐπιπονωτέρου ἐπιπονώτατος ἐπιπονωτάτου
Adverb ἐπιπόνως ἐπιπονώτερον ἐπιπονώτατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • Σπασμοὶ οἱ τέτανοι, κάρτα μὲν ἐπίπονοι, ὀξύτατοι δὲ κτεῖναι, ἀτὰρ οὐδὲ Ῥηί̈διοι λυθῆναι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 23)
  • μὴ ζηλοῦν δὲ μηδὲ τοὺσ ἐπὶ τὰσ πλεονεξίασ εἰκῇ ἰόντασ, μήτ’ ἐπὶ τὰσ ἰδίασ μήτ’ ἐπὶ τὰσ δημοσίασ, ἐνθυμηθέντα ὅτι οἱ μὲν ἄριστοι αὐτῶν γιγνώσκονται μὲν ἐπὶ τὰ βελτίω ἐπίπονοι δέ εἰσιν, οἱ δὲ κακοὶ πάσχουσί τε κακῶσ καὶ γιγνώσκονται ἐπὶ τὰ χείρω. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 13 12:1)
  • ἐπίπονοί γ’ οἱ δεξιοί. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, trochees1)

Synonyms

  1. painful

Related

Similar forms

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

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