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ταπεινός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταπεινός

Structure: ταπειν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. low, (of place) low-lying
  2. (of persons) humbled, abased in power, pride; submissive; small, poor, weak
  3. (of the spirits) downcast, dejected
  4. (in moral sense);, (bad) mean, base, abject
  5. (good) lowly, humble

Examples

  • ἔπειτα οὐδὲ τοῦτο δεῖ λανθάνειν, πότερον αἱ ὁπλαί εἰσιν ὑψηλαὶ ἢ ταπειναὶ καὶ ἔμπροσθεν καὶ ὄπισθεν ἢ χαμηλαί. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 5:3)
  • αἱ μὲν γὰρ ὑψηλαὶ πόρρω ἀπὸ τοῦ δαπέδου ἔχουσι τὴν χελιδόνα καλουμένην, αἱ δὲ ταπειναὶ ὁμοίωσ βαίνουσι τῷ τε ἰσχυροτάτῳ καὶ τῷ μαλακωτάτῳ τοῦ ποδόσ, ὥσπερ οἱ βλαισοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 5:4)
  • ἐὰν δέ τινι εἴπῃσ "αἱ ὀρέξεισ σου φλεγμαίνουσιν, αἱ ἐκκλίσεισ ταπειναί εἰσιν, αἱ ἐπιβολαὶ ἀνομολογούμεναι, αἱ ὁρμαὶ ἀσύμφωνοι τῇ φύσει, αἱ ὑπολήψεισ εἰκαῖαι καὶ ἐψευσμέναι", εὐθὺσ ἐξελθὼν λέγει "ὕβρισέν με". (Epictetus, Works, book 2, 22:2)
  • νῆσοι γάρ εἰσι κατὰ τὸν ὠκεανὸν πλησίον τῆσ γῆσ κείμεναι, πολλαὶ μὲν τὸ πλῆθοσ, μικραὶ δὲ τοῖσ μεγέθεσι καὶ ταπειναί, καρπὸν δὲ οὔθ’ ἥμερον οὔτ’ ἄγριον ἔχουσαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 21 1:2)

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