Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λιτός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιτός λιτή λιτόν

Structure: λιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: li/tomai

Sense

  1. suppliant, supplicatory

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • οἱ γὰρ λιτοὶ χυλοὶ ἴσην πολυτελεῖ διαίτῃ τὴν ἡδονὴν ἐπιφέρουσιν, ὅταν ἅπαξ τὸ ἀλγοῦν κατ’ ἔνδειαν ἐξαιρεθῇ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 130:4)
  • ἅπαντεσ δ’ οἱ ὄρειοι λιτοὶ ὑδροπόται χαμαιεῦναι βαθεῖαν κατακεχυμένοι τὴν κόμην γυναικῶν δίκην· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 3 14:1)
  • λιτοὶ δὲ σφόδρα τοῖσ βίοισ εἰσὶ καὶ τῷ κόσμῳ, πολυγύναικεσ δὲ καὶ πολύπαιδεσ, τἆλλα δὲ ἐμφερεῖσ τοῖσ νομάσι τῶν Ἀράβων· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 38:5)

Synonyms

  1. suppliant

Derived

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

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