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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

  • ὁ δ’ ἐν μέσῳ με λυπρὸσ ὢν δάκνει χρόνοσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode 3:23)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἡ γυνὴ λυπεῖ καὶ τὸν ἰατρὸν αἰτιῶνται καὶ δυσχεραίνουσι τὸ κλινίδιον, φίλων δ’ ὃ τ̓ ἐλθὼν λυπρὸσ ὅ τ’ ἀπιὼν βαρύσ, ὡσ ὁ Ιὤν φησίν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 3 2:6)
  • φίλων δ’ ὃ τ’ ἐλθὼν λυπρὸσ ὃ τ’ ἀπιὼν βαρύσ ὡσ ὁ Ιὤν φησίν. (Plutarch, De tranquilitate animi, section 3 9:1)
  • μή μοι γένοιτο λυπρὸσ εὐδαίμων βίοσ καί τί τὴν τυραννίδ’, ἀδικίαν εὐδαίμονα, τιμᾷσ ἂν μή τισ, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, ταῖσ μεταφοραῖσ καὶ καταχρήσεσι τῶν ὀνομάτων ἕπηται. (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 6 54:1)
  • κἀμοί γε λυπρόσ, καὶ τὸν οὐκ ἐκλύσεται, ὑπό τε γᾶν φυγὼν οὔ ποτ’ ἐλευθεροῦται. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 31)

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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