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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

  • πῶσ γάρ ἐστιν ἴσον τούτων μέν τινασ ἐκ τοῦ δεσμωτηρίου ἥκοντασ ἑαυτοὺσ ἀγνοεῖν, τὴν πόλιν δ’, ἣ προειστήκει τῶν Ἑλλήνων τέωσ καὶ τὸ πρωτεῖον εἶχε, νῦν ἐν ἀδοξίᾳ πάσῃ καὶ ταπεινότητι καθεστάναι; (Demosthenes, Speeches, 83:2)
  • τοὺσ δὲ ἐν ἀμαθίᾳ τε αὖ καὶ ταπεινότητι πολλῇ κυλινδουμένουσ εἰσ τὸ δουλικὸν ὑποζεύγνυσι γένοσ. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 313:2)
  • ἐξαπατῶσι μὲν γὰρ ὡσ κόλακεσ, προπηλακίζουσι δ’ ὡσ κρείττονεσ, δύο τοῖσ ἐσχάτοισ καὶ τοῖσ ἐναντιωτάτοισ ἔνοχοι κακοῖσ ὄντεσ, ταπεινότητι καὶ αὐθαδείᾳ, τοῖσ ἐν τῇ Παλαιστίνῃ δυσσεβέσι παραπλήσιοι τοὺσ τρόπουσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 194:3)

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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