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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

  • καὶ μάλιστα μὲν ἀκέσασθαι ἐσ ὠτειλὴν ἄγοντα τὸ τρῶμα· ἢν δὲ μὴ, Ῥυάδα γενέσθαι τοῦ οὔρου βέλτιον ἐσ τὸν αὖθισ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου βίον, ἢ τῇ ὀδύνῃ οἰκτίστωσ θανεῖν. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 301)
  • ὤλετο δ’ οἰκτίστωσ βρυχθεὶσ ἁλί· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 267 1:1)

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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