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λυπηρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυπηρός λυπηρή λυπηρόν

Structure: λυπηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lupe/w

Sense

  1. painful, distressing
  2. causing sorrow
  3. causing pain, troublesome, vexatious, offensive
  4. painfully, so as to cause pain, painful

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative λυπηρός λυπηρᾱ́ λυπηρόν
Genitive λυπηροῦ λυπηρᾶς λυπηροῦ
Dative λυπηρῷ λυπηρᾷ λυπηρῷ
Accusative λυπηρόν λυπηρᾱ́ν λυπηρόν
Vocative λυπηρέ λυπηρᾱ́ λυπηρόν
DualN/A/V λυπηρώ λυπηρᾱ́ λυπηρώ
G/D λυπηροῖν λυπηραῖν λυπηροῖν
PluralNominative λυπηροί λυπηραί λυπηρά
Genitive λυπηρῶν λυπηρῶν λυπηρῶν
Dative λυπηροῖς λυπηραῖς λυπηροῖς
Accusative λυπηρούς λυπηρᾱ́ς λυπηρά
Vocative λυπηροί λυπηραί λυπηρά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective λυπηρός λυπηροῦ λυπηρότερος λυπηροτεροῦ λυπηρότατος λυπηροτατοῦ
Adverb λυπηρώς λυπηρότερον λυπηρότατα

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

  • ὃ μὲν γὰρ οὐ γράφει, ὃ δ’ οὐ λογίζεται, λυπηρᾶσ οὔσησ τῆσ ἐνεργείασ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 61:3)
  • ̓τον ὑπὸ τούτων ἐνοχλούμενοσ ἢ χαλεπώτερον ἀνθρώπῳ σπληνὸσ ἀνέχεσθαι οἰδοῦντοσ καὶ διεφθαρμένου ὀδόντοσ ἢ ψυχῆσ ἄφρονοσ καὶ ἀμαθοῦσ καὶ δειλῆσ καὶ θρασείασ καὶ φιληδόνου καὶ ἀνελευθέρου καὶ ὀργίλησ καὶ λυπηρᾶσ καὶ πανούργου καὶ πάντα τρόπον διεφθαρμένησ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 9:3)
  • ἐγγὺσ γὰρ καὶ τὸ πολλάκισ τῷ ἀεί, ἔστιν δ’ ἡ μὲν φύσισ τοῦ ἀεί, τὸ δὲ ἔθοσ τοῦ πολλάκισ, καὶ τὸ μὴ βίαιον παρὰ φύσιν γὰρ ἡ βία, διὸ τὸ ἀναγκαῖον λυπηρόν, καὶ ὀρθῶσ εἴρηται πᾶν γὰρ ἀναγκαῖον πρᾶγμ’ ἀνιαρὸν ἔφυ, τὰσ δ’ ἐπιμελείασ καὶ τὰσ σπουδὰσ καὶ τὰσ συντονίασ λυπηράσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 11 3:3)
  • τῶν τε παρασήμων, ἃ τοῖσ βασιλεῦσιν ἀποδέδοται, πολλῶν ὄντων εἴ τινα λυπηρὰσ ὄψεισ καὶ ἐπιφθόνουσ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ παρέχεται, τὰ μὲν μειῶσαι, τὰ δ’ ἀφελεῖν ἡμᾶσ οἰόμαι δεῖν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 74 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. painful

  2. causing sorrow

  3. causing pain

  4. painfully

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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