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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

  • οἱ δὲ υἱοὶ Ἰακὼβ ἦλθον ἐκ τοῦ πεδίου. ὡσ δὲ ἤκουσαν, κατενύγησαν οἱ ἄνδρεσ, καὶ λυπηρὸν ἦν αὐτοῖσ σφόδρα, ὅτι ἄσχημον ἐποίησεν ἐν Ἰσραὴλ κοιμηθεὶσ μετὰ τῆσ θυγατρόσ Ἰακώβ, καὶ οὐχ οὕτωσ ἔσται. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 34:7)
  • κεκλημένῳ δὲ φωτὶ μακαρίῳ ποτὲ αἱ μεταβολαὶ λυπηρόν· (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:22)
  • χαριζόμεθα τὸ ποθεῖν καὶ τὸ τιμᾶν καὶ τὸ μεμνῆσθαι τῶν ἀπογενομένων, ἡ δὲ θρήνων ἄπληστοσ ἐπιθυμία καὶ πρὸσ ὀλοφύρσεισ ἐξάγουσα καὶ κοπετοὺσ αἰσχρὰ μὲν οὐχ ἧττον τῆσ περὶ τὰσ ἡδονὰσ ἀκρασίασ, λόγῳ δὲ συγγνώμησ ἔτυχεν, ὅτι τὸ λυπηρὸν αὐτῆσ καὶ πικρὸν ἀντὶ τοῦ τερπνοῦ τῷ αἰσχρῷ πρόσεστι. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 4 5:1)
  • τί γὰρ ἡμῖν ἀπ’ ἐκείνησ κακόν, εἰ μηδὲν ἐκείνῃ νῦν ἐστι λυπηρόν; (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 9 8:2)
  • πολλοὺσ λέγοντεσ ὡσ οὐδὲν οὐδαμῇ τῷ διαλυθέντι κακὸν οὐδὲ λυπηρόν ἐστιν, οἶδ’ ὅτι κωλύει σε πιστεύειν ὁ πάτριοσ λόγοσ καὶ τὰ μυστικὰ σύμβολα τῶν περὶ τὸν Διόνυσον ὀργιασμῶν, ἃ σύνισμεν ἀλλήλοισ οἱ κοινωνοῦντεσ. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 10 1:1)

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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