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οἴκτιστος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἴκτιστος οἴκτιστη οἴκτιστον

Structure: οἰκτιστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: irreg. Sup. of oi)ktro/s (cf. ai)sxro/s, ai)/sxistos)

Sense

  1. most pitiable, lamentable

Examples

  • νεφροὶ δὲ, ὁκοῖον αἱμάλωψ, τῆσ ἥπατοσ ἐάσι ἰδέησ· ἀλλὰ καὶ αἰνότατοι καὶ οἴκτιστοι, ἔνθα μάλιστα Γίγνετ’ Ἄρησ ἀλεγεινὸσ ὀϊζυροῖσι βροτοῖσι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 287)

Synonyms

  1. most pitiable

Related

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

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