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ὄρθιος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: orthios

Principal Part: ὄρθιος ὄρθια ὄρθιον

Structure: ὀρθι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ὀρθός

Sense

  1. straight up, going upwards, steep, uphill, up-hill, by a steep path, from the coast upwards
  2. upright, standing, rampant
  3. high-pitched, loud, shrill, aloud
  4. the orthian strain
  5. formed in column, a line of battle
  6. straight, straightforwardness

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ὄρθιος ὀρθία ὄρθιον
Genitive ὀρθίου ὀρθίας ὀρθίου
Dative ὀρθίῳ ὀρθίᾳ ὀρθίῳ
Accusative ὄρθιον ὀρθίαν ὄρθιον
Vocative ὄρθιε ὀρθία ὄρθιον
DualN/A/V ὀρθίω ὀρθία ὀρθίω
G/D ὀρθίοιν ὀρθίαιν ὀρθίοιν
PluralNominative ὄρθιοι ὄρθιαι ὄρθια
Genitive ὀρθίων ὀρθιῶν ὀρθίων
Dative ὀρθίοις ὀρθίαις ὀρθίοις
Accusative ὀρθίους ὀρθίας ὄρθια
Vocative ὄρθιοι ὄρθιαι ὄρθια
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὄρθιος ὀρθίου ὀρθιώτερος ὀρθιωτέρου ὀρθιώτατος ὀρθιωτάτου
Adverb ὀρθίως ὀρθιώτερον ὀρθιώτατα

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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ χαλεπώτερον ἐν ὀρθίῳ μὴ ἡττηθῆναι λαγῶ, ὅτι καὶ ὁ λαγὼς τὰ ὄρθια θεῖ ἄμεινον, ἐκεῖναι δοκοῦσιν γενναιότεραι αἱ κύνες, ὅσαι τὰ ὄπισθεν μείζω ἔχουσιν τῶν ἔμπροσθεν: (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 5 11:2)
  • κλύων δ ἐγὼ ταῦτ, ὀρθίῳ κηρύγματι Ταλθύβιον εἶπον πάντ ἀφιέναι στρατόν, ὡς οὔποτ ἂν τλὰς θυγατέρα κτανεῖν ἐμήν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 2:6)
  • γέγηθα, κρατὶ δ ὀρθίους ἐθείρας ἀνεπτέρωκα καὶ δάκρυ σταλάσσω, περὶ δὲ γυῖα χέρας ἔβαλον, ἡδονάν, ὦ πόσις, ὡς λάβω. (Euripides, Helen, episode, lyric1)
  • περγάμων δ ἀπ ὀρθίων λεύκασπιν εἰσορῶμεν Ἀργείων στρατὸν Τευμησὸν ἐκλιπόντα, καὶ τάφρου πέλας δρόμῳ ξυνῆψαν ἄστυ Καδμείας χθονός. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode24)
  • Ἐτεοκλέης δ ὑπῆρξ ἀπ ὀρθίου σταθεὶς πύργου, κελεύσας σῖγα κηρῦξαι στρατῷ: (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 13:19)
  • ὅτε ἐξεπορευόμην ὄρθιος ἐν πόλει, ἐν δὲ πλατείαις ἐτίθετό μου ὁ δίφρος. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 29:7)
  • ἐπίπεδος, ἀλλὰ πάνυ προσάντης καὶ ὄρθιος, ὃν παραλαβὼν κατὰ θάτερα εἰς ὑπερβολὴν ταπεινόν, ἰσόπεδον θάτερον θατέρῳ ἀπέφηνεν, κρηπῖδα μὲν βεβαιοτάτην ἅπαντι τῷ ἔργῳ βαλόμενος καὶ θεμελίων θέσει τὴν τῶν ἐπιτιθεμένων ἀσφάλειαν ἐμπεδωσάμενος, ὕψεσι δὲ πάνυ ἀποτόμοις καὶ πρὸς ἀσφάλειαν συνεχομένοις τὸ ὅλον κρατυνάμενος: (Lucian, (no name) 4:5)
  • "καὶ ὄρθιος οἶμος ἐς αὐτάς: (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 14:2)
  • μακρὸς δὲ καὶ ὄρθιος οἶμος ἐς αὐτὴν καὶ τρηχὺς τὸ πρῶτον: (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 35:5)
  • ἡ δ᾿ Ἀρετὴ πάνυ πόρρω κατὰ τὸν Ἡσίοδον οἰκεῖ καὶ ἔστιν ὁ οἶμος ἐπ᾿ αὐτὴν μακρός τε καὶ ὄρθιος καὶ τρηχύς, ἱδρῶτα οὐκ ὀλίγον ἔχων τοῖς ὁδοιπόροις. (Lucian, 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. straight

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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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