Hellas Alive Dictionary - οδυρτικος

Ancient Greek Dictionary

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀδυρτικός ὀδυρτική ὀδυρτικόν

Structure: ὀδυρτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

First/Second declension

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ὀδυρτικός ὀδυρτικοῦ	ὀδυρτικώτερος ὀδυρτικωτεροῦ	ὀδυρτικώτατος ὀδυρτικωτατοῦ
Adverb	ὀδυρτικώς	ὀδυρτικώτερον	ὀδυρτικώτατα

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.

"μᾶλλον δ’ ὥσπερ ἀετὸν τινα λέγουσι γνήσιον καὶ ὀρεινόν, ὃν Ὅμηροσ μέλανα καὶ θηρευτήν προσεῖπεν ἄλλα δὲ γένη νόθων ἐστὶν ἰχθῦσ περὶ ἕλη καὶ ὄρνιθασ ἀργοὺσ λαμβανόντων, ἀπορούμενοι δὲ πολλάκισ ἀναφθέγγονταί τι λιμῶδεσ καὶ ὀδυρτικόν· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 4 2:13)
ἐναντίον γὰρ τὸ ὀδυρτικὸν τῷ φιλογέλωτι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 13 15:5)

disposed to complain
- μεμψίμοιρος (complaining of one's fate, repining, querulous)
- ὀλοφυρτικός (querulous)
- θρηνητικός (querulous)

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

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