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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

  • καὶ λυπηρῶν, οὐδεμία μηχανὴ παρεῖναι τοῖσ μὴ λογίζεσθαί τι καὶ κρίνειν καὶ μνημονεύειν καὶ προσέχειν πεφυκόσιν ἀλλ’ ὧν ἂν ἀφέλῃσ παντάπασι προσδοκίαν μνήμην πρόθεσιν παρασκευὴν τὸ ἐλπίζειν τὸ δεδοικέναι τὸ ἐπιθυμεῖν τὸ ἀσχάλλειν, οὔτ’ ὀμμάτων ὄφελοσ οὐδὲν αὐτοῖσ παρόντων οὔτ’ ὤτων· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 3 9:1)
  • τίθημι γὰρ καὶ τὴν τῶν κακῶν ἢ φαινομένων κακῶν ἢ ἀπαλλαγὴν ἢ ἀντὶ μείζονοσ ἐλάττονοσ μετάληψιν ἐν τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ αἱρετὰ γάρ πωσ, καὶ τὴν τῶν λυπηρῶν ἢ φαινομένων <λυπηρῶν> ἢ ἀπαλλαγὴν ἢ μετάληψιν ἀντὶ μειζόνων ἐλαττόνων ἐν τοῖσ ἡδέσιν ὡσαύτωσ. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 10 18:7)
  • ὅσα τε γὰρ τῶν λυπηρῶν καὶ ὀδυνηρῶν φθαρτικά, πάντα ἐλεεινά, καὶ ὅσα ἀναιρετικά, καὶ ὅσων ἡ τύχη αἰτία κακῶν μέγεθοσ ἐχόντων. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 8 8:2)
  • περὶ τὰσ σωματικὰσ ἀπολαύσεισ, περὶ ἃσ λέγομεν τὸν σώφρονα καὶ ἀκόλαστον, ὁ μὴ τῷ προαιρεῖσθαι τῶν ἡδέων διώκων τὰσ ὑπερβολάσ ‐ καὶ τῶν λυπηρῶν φεύγων, πείνησ καὶ δίψησ καὶ ἀλέασ καὶ ψύχουσ καὶ πάντων τῶν περὶ ἁφὴν καὶ γεῦσιν ‐ ἀλλὰ παρὰ τὴν προαίρεσιν καὶ τὴν διάνοιαν, ἀκρατὴσ λέγεται, οὐ κατὰ πρόσθεσιν, ὅτι περὶ τάδε, καθάπερ ὀργῆσ, ἀλλ’ ἁπλῶσ μόνον. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 53:1)
  • ἔτι τὰ μεγέθη τῶν συμφορῶν καὶ λυπηρῶν πάθη λέγεται. (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 5 214:1)

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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