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ταπεινότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταπεινότης ταπεινότητος

Structure: ταπεινοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from tapeino/s

Sense

  1. lowness
  2. low estate, abasement
  3. lowness of spirits, dejection
  4. baseness, vileness

Declension

Third declension

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

  • βδέλυγμα ὑπερηφάνῳ ταπεινότησ, οὕτωσ βδέλυγμα πλουσίῳ πτωχόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 13:20)
  • βαρυθυμία καὶ μικροψυχία, ταπεινότησ, ἀμετρία, ἀγένεια, μισανθρωπία. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 42:1)
  • ἀκολουθεῖ δὲ τῇ μικροψυχίᾳ μικρολογία, μεμψιμοιρία, δυσελπιστία, ταπεινότησ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 43:1)
  • ἐνθυμούμενοί τε δὴ ταῦτα καὶ ὅσα δὴ ἕτερα ἡμῖν εἴρηται πρότερον, ἔτι δὲ τῶν παρακαλούντων ἐπὶ τὰσ διαλλαγὰσ ἀναμιμνησκόμενοι, ὅτι οὐ παρ’ ἡμῖν μόνοισ ἤ πρώτοισ πενία πρὸσ πλοῦτον ἐστασίασε καὶ ταπεινότησ πρὸσ ἐπιφάνειαν, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἁπάσαισ ὡσ εἰπεῖν καὶ μικραῖσ καὶ μεγάλαισ πόλεσι πολέμιον ὡσ τὰ πολλὰ τοῦ πλείονοσ τοὔλαττον καθίσταται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 6, chapter 54 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. lowness

  2. low estate

Related

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

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