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ὀλέθριος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλέθριος ὀλέθριον

Structure: ὀλεθρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. destructive, deadly, of destruction, of death, fatally
  2. bringing ruin
  3. ruined, lost, undone, rascally, worthless

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ὀλέθριος ὀλέθριον
Genitive ὀλεθρίου ὀλεθρίου
Dative ὀλεθρίῳ ὀλεθρίῳ
Accusative ὀλέθριον ὀλέθριον
Vocative ὀλέθριε ὀλέθριον
DualN/A/V ὀλεθρίω ὀλεθρίω
G/D ὀλεθρίοιν ὀλεθρίοιν
PluralNominative ὀλέθριοι ὀλέθρια
Genitive ὀλεθρίων ὀλεθρίων
Dative ὀλεθρίοις ὀλεθρίοις
Accusative ὀλεθρίους ὀλέθρια
Vocative ὀλέθριοι ὀλέθρια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὀλέθριος ὀλεθρίου ὀλεθριώτερος ὀλεθριωτέρου ὀλεθριώτατος ὀλεθριωτάτου
Adverb ὀλεθρίως ὀλεθριώτερον ὀλεθριώτατα

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

  • οὐδὲ Κλέων αὐτὸν φοβήσει μέγα ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ δυνάμενοσ καὶ κατέχων τὸ βῆμα, ὡσ μὴ εἰπεῖν ὅτι ὀλέθριοσ καὶ μανικὸσ ἄνθρωποσ οὗτοσ ἦν· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 38 1:3)
  • οὔτε γὰρ τοῖσ δουλουμένοισ οὔτε τοῖσ δουλωθεῖσιν ἄμεινον, αὐτοῖσ καὶ παισὶ παίδων τε καὶ ἐκγόνοισ, ἀλλ’ ὀλέθριοσ πάντωσ ἡ πεῖρα, σμικρὰ δὲ καὶ ἀνελεύθερα ψυχῶν ἤθη τὰ τοιαῦτα ἁρπάζειν κέρδη φιλεῖ, οὐδὲν τῶν εἰσ τὸν ἔπειτα καὶ εἰσ τὸν παρόντα καιρὸν ἀγαθῶν καὶ δικαίων εἰδότα θείων τε καὶ ἀνθρωπίνων. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 7 73:4)
  • καίτοι "Δυσεντερίη," φησί που Ἱπποκράτησ, "ἢν ἀπὸ χολῆσ μελαίνησ ἄρξηται, θανάσιμον," οὐ μὴν ἥ γ’ ἀπὸ τῆσ ξανθῆσ χολῆσ ἀρχομένη πάντωσ ὀλέθριοσ, ἀλλ’ οἱ πλείουσ ἐξ αὐτῆσ διασῴζονται. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 943)
  • ἦν οὖν ὀλέθριοσ ἡ πορεία τοῖσ Ἀθήναζε πεζῇ βαδίζουσιν ἐκ Πελοποννήσου· (Plutarch, chapter 6 6:1)
  • ἢν δὲ καὶ ἐκδηθύνῃ, χρόνῳ καρτερὰ ἔσται καὶ ξυναποθνήσκειν γίγνεταί κοτε· καὶ τὰ σμικρὰ μεζόνων ποιέεται διαδέξιασ· κἢν τὸ πρόσθεν ἐσ κίνδυνον ἀσινὲσ ᾖ, ὁ τόκοσ τῶνδε γίγνεται ὀλέθριοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 4)

Synonyms

  1. destructive

  2. bringing ruin

Related

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

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