Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

λυπρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυπρός λυπρή λυπρόν

Structure: λυπρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lupe/w

Sense

  1. wretched, poor, sorry
  2. causing pain, offensive, troublesome
  3. painful, distressing
  4. aegre ferebat

Examples

  • καὶ ἡ μὲν Δολίχα κεῖται κατὰ Οἰνιάδασ καὶ τὴν ἐκβολὴν τοῦ Ἀχελώου, διέχουσα Ἀράξου τῆσ τῶν Ἠλείων ἄκρασ ἑκατόν, αἱ λοιπαὶ δ’ Ἐχινάδεσ πλείουσ δ’ εἰσί, πᾶσαι λυπραὶ καὶ τραχεῖαι πρὸ τῆσ ἐκβολῆσ τοῦ Ἀχελώου, πεντεκαίδεκα σταδίουσ ἀφεστῶσα ἡ ἀπωτάτω, ἡ δ’ ἐγγυτάτω πέντε, πελαγίζουσαι πρότερον, ἀλλ’ ἡ χοῦσ τὰσ μὲν ἐξηπείρωκεν αὐτῶν ἤδη, τὰσ δὲ μέλλει πολλὴ καταφερομένη· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 2 26:2)

Synonyms

  1. wretched

  2. causing pain

  3. painful

Related

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

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