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πένθιμος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πένθιμος πένθιμον

Structure: πενθιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. mournful, mourning, sorrowful
  2. mournful, sorry, wretched

Examples

  • ὁρῶ δάκρυα καὶ πενθίμουσ <ἀλαλαγὰσ> στεναγμάτων τ’ ἐσβολάσ, ὅταν ἐμὰ τύραννοσ εὐπαιδίαν πόσιν ἔχοντ’ εἰδῇ, αὐτὴ δ’ ἄπαισ ᾖ καὶ λελειμμένη τέκνων. (Euripides, Ion, choral, strophe 11)
  • καὶ περὶ μύρου μὲν ἐνίουσ καὶ πορφύρασ διαμάχεσθαι ταῖσ γυναιξί, κουρὰσ δὲ συγχωρεῖν πενθίμουσ καὶ βαφὰσ ἐσθῆτοσ μελαίνασ καὶ καθίσεισ ἀμόρφουσ καὶ κατακλίσεισ ἐπιπόνουσ; (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 4 7:1)
  • μετὰ τοῦτο ἐξῄεσαν ἐσθῆτασ ἔχουσαι πενθίμουσ, τινὲσ δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ τέκνα νήπια ἐπαγόμεναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 45 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. mournful

  2. mournful

Related

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

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