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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

  • τί οὖν αἴτιον ἦν ἐκείνων μὲν τῶν ποιημάτων τῆσ εὐγενείασ, τούτων δὲ τῶν φλυαρημάτων τῆσ ταπεινότητοσ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 18100)
  • μικροψυχίασ γὰρ πάντα καὶ ταπεινότητοσ σημεῖα. (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 2, chapter 6 10:2)
  • ἐνθυμηθεὶσ δὴ ὅσα χρῆν λέγειν τε καὶ πράττειν καὶ μετὰ τῶν συναρχόντων βουλευσάμενοσ, ἐπειδὴ κἀκείνουσ ἔσχεν ὁμογνώμονασ, ἀνέστη καὶ μικρὰ περὶ τῆσ κατεχούσησ τὸν δῆμον ἀτυχίασ ἀποδυράμενοσ τούσ θ’ ὑπάτουσ ἐπῄνεσεν, ὅτι λόγον ἠξίωσαν ὑποσχεῖν τοῖσ δημόταισ οὐχ ὑπεριδόντεσ αὐτῶν τῆσ ταπεινότητοσ, καὶ τοῖσ πατρικίοισ εἰδέναι χάριν ἔφησεν, εἴ τισ αὐτοῖσ ἤδη ποτὲ φροντὶσ εἰσέρχεται τῆσ σωτηρίασ τῶν πενήτων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 33 4:1)
  • αἴτιόν τ’ ἰσχύοσ μὲν ταῖσ ἀσθενέσιν ἀποφαίνων ὁμοφροσύνην, ταπεινότητοσ δὲ καὶ ἀσθενείασ καὶ ταῖσ πάνυ ἰσχυραῖσ ἀλληλοφθορίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 4, chapter 26 2:1)
  • τὰ μὲν δὴ τῶν Ἑλλήνων μετὰ τὸν πόλεμον εἰστοῦτο ἦλθε δυστυχίασ καὶ ταπεινότητοσ, τὰ δὲ τῶν Τρώων πολὺ κρείττονα καὶ ἐπικυδέστερα ἐγένετο. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 172:1)

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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