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οἰκτρός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκτρός οἰκτρή οἰκτρόν

Structure: οἰκτρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: oi)=ktos

Sense

  1. pitiable, in piteous plight
  2. pitiable, piteous, lamentable
  3. piteous

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative οἰκτρός οἰκτρᾱ́ οἰκτρόν
Genitive οἰκτροῦ οἰκτρᾶς οἰκτροῦ
Dative οἰκτρῷ οἰκτρᾷ οἰκτρῷ
Accusative οἰκτρόν οἰκτρᾱ́ν οἰκτρόν
Vocative οἰκτρέ οἰκτρᾱ́ οἰκτρόν
DualN/A/V οἰκτρώ οἰκτρᾱ́ οἰκτρώ
G/D οἰκτροῖν οἰκτραῖν οἰκτροῖν
PluralNominative οἰκτροί οἰκτραί οἰκτρά
Genitive οἰκτρῶν οἰκτρῶν οἰκτρῶν
Dative οἰκτροῖς οἰκτραῖς οἰκτροῖς
Accusative οἰκτρούς οἰκτρᾱ́ς οἰκτρά
Vocative οἰκτροί οἰκτραί οἰκτρά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective οἰκτρός οἰκτροῦ οἰκτρότερος οἰκτροτεροῦ οἰκτρότατος οἰκτροτατοῦ
Adverb οἰκτρώς οἰκτρότερον οἰκτρότατα

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.

Examples

  • στείχομεν οἰκτροὶ καὶ πολύκλαυτοι, τὰ μέγιστα φίλων ὀλέσαντεσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests1)
  • ἐντεῦθεν οἱ κτηματικοὶ τὰσ μὲν ἐσθῆτασ μετέβαλον καὶ περιῄεσαν οἰκτροὶ καὶ ταπεινοὶ κατὰ τὴν ἀγοράν, ἐπεβούλευον δὲ τῷ Τιβερίῳ κρύφα καὶ συνίστασαν ἐπ’ αὐτὸν τοὺσ ἀναιρήσοντασ, ὥστε κἀκεῖνον οὐδενὸσ ἀγνοοῦντοσ ὑποζώννυσθαι ξιφίδιον λῃστρικόν, ὃ δόλωνα καλοῦσιν. (Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, chapter 10 7:1)
  • ὦ παῖδεσ οἰκτροί, γνωτὰ κοὐκ ἄγνωτά μοι προσήλθεθ’ ἱμείροντεσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. pitiable

  2. pitiable

  3. piteous

Related

Similar forms

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

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