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εὐπετής?

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: eupetēs

Principal Part: εὐπετής εὐπετές

Structure: εὐπετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: πίπτω

Sense

  1. falling well;, favourable
  2. easy, without trouble, easily, easily, full
  3. easy-tempered, accommodating

Declension

Third declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative εὐπετής εὔπετες
Genitive εὐπετούς εὐπέτους
Dative εὐπετεί εὐπέτει
Accusative εὐπετή εὔπετες
Vocative εὐπετές εὔπετες
DualN/A/V εὐπετεί εὐπέτει
G/D εὐπετοίν εὐπέτοιν
PluralNominative εὐπετείς εὐπέτη
Genitive εὐπετών εὐπέτων
Dative εὐπετέσι(ν) εὐπέτεσι(ν)
Accusative εὐπετείς εὐπέτη
Vocative εὐπετείς εὐπέτη
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective εὐπετής εὐπετούς εὐπετέστερος εὐπετεστέρου εὐπετέστατος εὐπετεστάτου
Adverb εὐπετέως εὐπετέστερον εὐπετέστατα

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 ὅστις μὲν ἐκεῖνον κατ᾿ ἐπιτυχίην συλλάβοι, τοῦτον μὲν εὐπετέως περιβάλλειν καὶ τὸ ἄλλο σμῆνος τῶν μαργαριτέων: (Arrian, Indica, chapter 8 12:1)
  • ἐπεὰν γὰρ ὁμοῦ ἔλθῃ ἐλέφαντι, ἐπιπηδᾶν τε ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν τοῦ ἐλέφαντος καὶ ἄγχειν εὐπετέως. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 15 3:1)
  • ὑπ ἄλλου δὲ εὑρημένα καὶ λεγόμενα, εὐπετές. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , ii.9)
  • Καὶ εἰ μὲν ἦν ἁπλοῦν, ὥσπερ ὑφήγητο, ὅσα μὲν ἦν ἰσχυρότερα, ἔβλαπτεν, ὅσα δ ἦν ἀσθενέστερα, ὠφέλει τε καὶ ἔτρεφεν καὶ τὸν κάμνοντα καὶ τὸν ὑγιαίνοντα, εὐπετὲς ἂν ἦν τὸ πρῆγμα: (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , ix.1)
  • πᾶς δ ἐν μετοίκῳ γλῶσσαν εὔτυκον φέρει κακήν, τό τ εἰπεῖν εὐπετὲς μύσαγμά πως. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, episode, trochees6)
  • ἦν δὲ αὐτοῖς οὐκ εὐπετὴς ἡ πρὸς τὸν χάρακα ἀναχώρησις καθ ὑψηλοῦ τε χωρίου καὶ διὰ κοίλης ὁδοῦ διωκομένοις, καὶ πολὺς αὐτῶν φόνος ἐν ταύτῃ γίνεται τῇ τροπῇ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 43 6:1)
  • ὁ δέ γε φιλόσοφος, τῇ τοῦ ὄντος ἀεὶ διὰ λογισμῶν προσκείμενος ἰδέᾳ, διὰ τὸ λαμπρὸν αὖ τῆς χώρας οὐδαμῶς εὐπετὴς ὀφθῆναι: (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 228:5)

Synonyms

  1. falling well

  2. easy

  3. easy-tempered

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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