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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

Examples

  • εἰδὼσ οὖν Πέρσασ τοὺσ οἴκοι κακοβιωτάτουσ μὲν ὄντασ διὰ πενίαν, ἐπιπονώτατα δὲ ζῶντασ διὰ τὴν τῆσ χώρασ τραχύτητα καὶ διὰ τὸ αὐτουργοὺσ εἶναι, τούτουσ ἐνόμισε μάλιστ’ ἂν ἀγαπᾶν τὴν παρ’ αὑτῷ δίαιταν. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 79:1)

Synonyms

  1. painful

Related

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

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