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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

Examples

  • "βασιλεύων ἀνθρώπων τοσούτων Ἄμασισ, κεκτημένοσ δὲ χώραν ἀρίστην τοσαύτην ἐθελήσει ἐπὶ κώμαισ ἀδόξοισ καὶ λυπραῖσ ἐκπιεῖν θάλασσαν; (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 6 6:2)

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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