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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

  • ἀναγκαῖον ἂν εἰή τὴν ἠθικὴν ἀρετὴν καθ’ αὑτὸν ἕκαστον μεσότητα εἶναι καὶ περὶ μέσ’ ἄττα ἐν ἡδοναῖσ καὶ λύπαισ καὶ ἡδέσι καὶ λυπηροῖσ. (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 81:1)
  • ἀνάγκη τοίνυν, ἐπειδὴ ἡ ἀρετὴ μὲν ἡ ἠθικὴ αὐτή τε μεσότησ τίσ ἐστι καὶ περὶ ἡδονὰσ καὶ λύπασ πᾶσα, ἡ δὲ κακία ἐν ὑπερβολῇ καὶ ἐλλείψει καὶ περὶ ταὐτὰ τῇ ἀρετῇ, τὴν ἀρετὴν εἶναι τὴν ἠθικὴν ἕξιν προαιρετικὴν μεσότητοσ τῆσ πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ ἐν ἡδέσι καὶ λυπηροῖσ, καθ’ ὅσα ποῖόσ τισ λέγεται τὸ ἦθοσ, ἢ χαίρων ἢ λυπούμενοσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2 202:1)
  • τούτων δὲ ὑποκειμένων ἀνάγκη φίλον εἶναι τὸν συνηδόμενον τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ καὶ συναλγοῦντα τοῖσ λυπηροῖσ μὴ διά τι ἕτερον ἀλλὰ δι’ ἐκεῖνον· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 4 3:1)

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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