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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative λυπρός λυπρᾱ́ λυπρόν
Genitive λυπροῦ λυπρᾶς λυπροῦ
Dative λυπρῷ λυπρᾷ λυπρῷ
Accusative λυπρόν λυπρᾱ́ν λυπρόν
Vocative λυπρέ λυπρᾱ́ λυπρόν
DualN/A/V λυπρώ λυπρᾱ́ λυπρώ
G/D λυπροῖν λυπραῖν λυπροῖν
PluralNominative λυπροί λυπραί λυπρά
Genitive λυπρῶν λυπρῶν λυπρῶν
Dative λυπροῖς λυπραῖς λυπροῖς
Accusative λυπρούς λυπρᾱ́ς λυπρά
Vocative λυπροί λυπραί λυπρά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective λυπρός λυπροῦ λυπρότερος λυπροτεροῦ λυπρότατος λυπροτατοῦ
Adverb λυπρώς λυπρότερον λυπρότατα

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

  • εἶναι γὰρ αὐτῷ πεπρωμένον ἐκ ταύτησ ὁρμώμενον τῆσ λυπρᾶσ καὶ ὀλίγησ τὸ πρῶτον οἰκήσεωσ πολλὴν καὶ ἀγαθὴν ἐπικτήσασθαι γῆν σὺν χρόνῳ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 56 5:1)
  • καὶ οὐδὲν ὤνησεν αὐτοὺσ οὔτε τῶν ἵππων τὸ τάχοσ οὔτε ὁ Ζεὺσ οὔτε ὁ Γανυμήδησ, ἀλλ’ ὑπ’ ἀνδρὸσ ἐξ οὕτω λυπρᾶσ καὶ ἀδόξου πόλεωσ ἀπώλοντο, καὶ ἴσχυσεν ὁ τῆσ Ἰθάκησ πολίτησ περιγενέσθαι τῶν ἐκ τοῦ Ἰλίου πάντων, καὶ τὴν εὐρυάγυιαν ἅπασαν πορθῆσαι καὶ ἀνελεῖν; (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 28:3)
  • θηριώδουσ γὰρ οὔσησ τῆσ χώρασ καὶ παντελῶσ λυπρᾶσ, ἔτι δὲ ὑδάτων ῥύσεισ ναματιαίων ἐχούσησ ὀλίγασ, καθεύδουσι μὲν ἐπὶ τῶν δένδρων διὰ τὸν ἀπὸ τῶν θηρίων φόβον, ὑπὸ δὲ τὴν ἑωθινὴν πρὸσ τὰσ συρρύσεισ τῶν ὑδάτων μεθ’ ὅπλων φοιτῶντεσ ἑαυτοὺσ ἀποκρύβουσιν εἰσ τὴν ὕλην καὶ σκοπεύουσιν ἐπὶ τῶν δένδρων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 25 1:2)
  • πολλὰ δ’ ἐταλαιπώρει ὁ Ἀλέξανδροσ καθ’ ὅλην τὴν ὁδὸν διὰ λυπρᾶσ ἰών· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 2 10:4)

Synonyms

  1. wretched

  2. causing pain

  3. painful

Related

Similar forms

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

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