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εὔληπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὔληπτος εὔληπτον

Structure: εὐληπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. easily taken hold of, so that one can easily take hold
  2. easy to be taken or reduced, easy to gain or obtain

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative εύ̓ληπτος εύ̓ληπτον
Genitive εὐλήπτου εὐλήπτου
Dative εὐλήπτῳ εὐλήπτῳ
Accusative εύ̓ληπτον εύ̓ληπτον
Vocative εύ̓ληπτε εύ̓ληπτον
DualN/A/V εὐλήπτω εὐλήπτω
G/D εὐλήπτοιν εὐλήπτοιν
PluralNominative εύ̓ληπτοι εύ̓ληπτα
Genitive εὐλήπτων εὐλήπτων
Dative εὐλήπτοις εὐλήπτοις
Accusative εὐλήπτους εύ̓ληπτα
Vocative εύ̓ληπτοι εύ̓ληπτα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective εύ̓ληπτος εὐλήπτου εὐληπτότερος εὐληπτοτέρου εὐληπτότατος εὐληπτοτάτου
Adverb εὐλήπτως εὐληπτότερον εὐληπτότατα

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

  • καὶ τοῦτο μάλιστα τοῖσ κόλαξιν εὐλήπτουσ καὶ πλαγίουσ παραδίδωσιν , ἀπὸ τῶν σφόδρα προσάντων καὶ ἀντιτύπων ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τὰ κοῖλα καὶ μαλακὰ δίκην ὕδατοσ ἀπολισθάνοντασ. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 25 8:2)
  • οἱ δὲ τῶν βασιλέων τούτων οἰνοχόοι κομψῶσ τε οἰνοχοοῦσι καὶ καθαρείωσ ἐγχέουσι καὶ διδόασι τοῖσ τρισὶ δακτύλοισ ὀχοῦντεσ τὴν φιάλην καὶ προσφέρουσιν ὡσ ἂν ἐνδοῖεν τὸ ἔκπωμα εὐληπτότατα τῷ μέλλοντι πίνειν. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 9:7)

Synonyms

  1. easily taken hold of

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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