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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

Examples

  • τὸν ἄνθρωπον, οἰόμενον μὲν εἶναι θεούσ, εἶναι δὲ λυπηροὺσ καὶ βλαβερούσ. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 2 2:1)
  • ὥσπερ τῇ πλεονεξίᾳ μόνον ἐπαχθεῖσ καὶ λυπηροὺσ ὄντασ, οὐχὶ μᾶλλον, ὅσοι πρὸσ ὕβριν καὶ φθόνον ἢ ὀργὴν ἢ φιλονεικίαν τινὰ χρῶνται τῷ δύνασθαι, τούτουσ δεδιότων καὶ προβαλλομένων τῶν πολλῶν. (Plutarch, chapter 10 3:3)
  • ἄνοπλοι φράζοντέσ τε τὰσ ἑαυτῶν τύχασ καὶ δεόμενοι πρὸσ φιλίαν δέξασθαι σφᾶσ συνοίκουσ οὐ λυπηροὺσ ἐσομένουσ, ἐπεὶ καὶ τὸ δαιμόνιον αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τήνδε μόνην ἄγει τὴν χώραν, ἐξηγούμενοι τὸ λόγιον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 20 2:1)
  • οἶδα μὲν γὰρ ὑμῖν Μυσοὺσ λυπηροὺσ ὄντασ, οὓσ νομίζω ἂν σὺν τῇ παρούσῃ δυνάμει ταπεινοὺσ ὑμῖν παρασχεῖν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 5 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. painful

  2. causing sorrow

  3. causing pain

  4. painfully

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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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