Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὀδυρτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀδυρτικός ὀδυρτική ὀδυρτικόν

Structure: ὀδυρτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. disposed to complain, querulous

Examples

  • "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)
  • ὅθεν ὀδυρτικοί εἰσι, καὶ οὐκ εὐτράπελοι οὐδὲ φιλογέλοιοι· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 13 15:4)
  • ἐναντίον γὰρ τὸ ὀδυρτικὸν τῷ φιλογέλωτι. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 13 15:5)
  • Τὴν δ’ Ἀλεξάνδραν ἥττησε μὲν οὐδὲν τῶν τοιούτων, ἀεὶ δὲ καὶ μᾶλλον ἡ μνήμη τοῦ κακοῦ παρέχουσα τὴν ὀδύνην ὀδυρτικὴν ἐποίει καὶ φιλόνεικον, καὶ γράφει τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν Ἡρώδου τῇ Κλεοπάτρᾳ καὶ τὴν ἀπώλειαν τοῦ παιδόσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 79:1)

Synonyms

  1. disposed to complain

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

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