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εὔληπτος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: eulēptos

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 εὔληπτος εὔληπτον
Genitive εὐλήπτου εὐλήπτου
Dative εὐλήπτῳ εὐλήπτῳ
Accusative εὔληπτον εὔληπτον
Vocative εὔληπτε εὔληπτον
DualN/A/V εὐλήπτω εὐλήπτω
G/D εὐλήπτοιν εὐλήπτοιν
PluralNominative εὔληπτοι εὔληπτα
Genitive εὐλήπτων εὐλήπτων
Dative εὐλήπτοις εὐλήπτοις
Accusative εὐλήπτους εὔληπτα
Vocative εὔληπτοι εὔληπτα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective εὔληπτος 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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