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ἤπιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἤπιος ἤπιη ἤπιον

Structure: ἠπι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. gentle, mild, kind
  2. kindly feelings, a milder mood
  3. soothing, assuaging
  4. favourable

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ή̓πιος ἤπίᾱ ή̓πιον
Genitive ἠπίου ἤπίᾱς ἠπίου
Dative ἠπίῳ ἤπίᾱͅ ἠπίῳ
Accusative ή̓πιον ἤπίᾱν ή̓πιον
Vocative ή̓πιε ἤπίᾱ ή̓πιον
DualN/A/V ἠπίω ἤπίᾱ ἠπίω
G/D ἠπίοιν ἤπίαιν ἠπίοιν
PluralNominative ή̓πιοι ή̓́πιαι ή̓πια
Genitive ἠπίων ἤπιῶν ἠπίων
Dative ἠπίοις ἤπίαις ἠπίοις
Accusative ἠπίους ἤπίᾱς ή̓πια
Vocative ή̓πιοι ή̓́πιαι ή̓πια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ή̓πιος ἠπίου ἠπιότερος ἠπιοτέρου ἠπιότατος ἠπιοτάτου
Adverb ἠπίως ἠπιότερον ἠπιότατα

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

  • ἐπῄνεσ’ ὀργὰσ ἠπίουσ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 2:4)
  • σωτῆρασ αὐτοὺσ ἠπίουσ θ’ ἡμῖν μολεῖν. (Sophocles, Philoctetes, episode11)
  • ἢ πραιστίτεισ μὲν οἱ προεστῶτέσ εἰσι, τοὺσ δὲ προεστῶτασ οἴκου φυλακτικοὺσ εἶναι προσήκει, καὶ φοβεροὺσ μὲν τοῖσ ἀλλοτρίοισ, ὥσπερ ὁ κύων ἐστίν, ἠπίουσ δὲ καὶ πράουσ τοῖσ συνοικοῦσιν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 512)
  • ἦ πραιστίτεισ μὲν οἱ προεστῶτέσ εἰσι, τοὺσ δὲ προεστῶτασ οἴκου φυλακτικοὺσ εἶναι προσήκει, καὶ φοβεροὺσ μὲν τοῖσ ἀλλοτρίοισ, ὥσπερ ὁ κύων ἐστίν, ἠπίουσ δὲ καὶ πράουσ τοῖσ συνοικοῦσιν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 511)

Synonyms

  1. gentle

  2. favourable

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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