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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

  • καρδία εὐφραινομένη εὐεκτεῖν ποιεῖ, ἀνδρὸσ δὲ λυπηροῦ ξηραίνεται τὰ ὀστᾶ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 17:24)
  • καὶ τοῦ μὲν λυπηροῦ τούτου τὸν δαίμον’ αἴτιον εὑρήσομεν ὄντα, ᾧ φύντασ ἀνθρώπουσ εἴκειν ἀνάγκη, τοῦ δὲ τιμίου καὶ καλοῦ τὴν τῶν ἐθελησάντων καλῶσ ἀποθνῄσκειν αἱρ́εσιν. (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 46:3)
  • ἔστω δὴ ὁ φόβοσ λύπη τισ ἢ ταραχὴ ἐκ φαντασίασ μέλλοντοσ κακοῦ φθαρτικοῦ ἢ λυπηροῦ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 5 1:2)
  • τριῶν γὰρ ὄντων τῶν εἰσ τὰσ αἱρέσεισ καὶ τριῶν τῶν εἰσ τὰσ φυγάσ, καλοῦ συμφέροντοσ ἡδέοσ, καὶ τριῶν τῶν ἐναντίων, αἰσχροῦ βλαβεροῦ λυπηροῦ, περὶ ταῦτα μὲν πάντα ὁ ἀγαθὸσ κατορθωτικόσ ἐστιν ὁ δὲ κακὸσ ἁμαρτητικόσ, μάλιστα δὲ περὶ τὴν ἡδονήν· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 2 29:4)
  • καὶ ἡ μὲν ἐπιθυμία ἡδέοσ καὶ ἐπιλύπου, ἡ προαίρεσισ δ’ οὔτε λυπηροῦ οὔθ’ ἡδέοσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 31:5)

Synonyms

  1. painful

  2. causing sorrow

  3. causing pain

  4. painfully

Related

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

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