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ὑβριστής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑβριστής ὑβριστοῦ

Structure: ὑβριστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: u(bri/zw

Sense

  1. a violent, overbearing person, a wanton, insolent man
  2. lustful, lewd
  3. wanton, restive, unruly

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑβριστής ὑβριστᾱ́ ὑβρισταί
Genitive ὑβριστοῦ ὑβρισταῖν ὑβριστῶν
Dative ὑβριστῇ ὑβρισταῖν ὑβρισταῖς
Accusative ὑβριστήν ὑβριστᾱ́ ὑβριστᾱ́ς
Vocative ὑβριστά ὑβριστᾱ́ ὑβρισταί

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

  • ἀπόστειλον δὲ ἀγγέλουσ ὀργῇ, πάντα δὲ ὑβριστὴν ταπείνωσον. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 40:11)
  • ἡμέρα γὰρ Κυρίου σαβαὼθ ἐπὶ πάντα ὑβριστὴν καὶ ὑπερήφανον καὶ ἐπὶ πάντα ὑψηλὸν καὶ μετέωρον, καὶ ταπεινωθήσονται, (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 2:12)
  • τῇ δὲ Τυφάονά φασι μιγήμεναι ἐν φιλότητι δεινόν θ’ ὑβριστήν τ’ ἄνομόν θ’ ἑλικώπιδι κούρῃ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 32:1)
  • ὑβριστὴν δὲ Μενοίτιον εὐρύοπα Ζεὺσ εἰσ Ἔρεβοσ κατέπεμψε βαλὼν ψολόεντι κεραυνῷ εἵνεκ’ ἀτασθαλίησ τε καὶ ἠνορέησ ὑπερόπλου. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 48:5)
  • τοιόνδε τὸν στρατηγὸν αἱρεῖσθαι χρεών, ὃσ ἔν τε τοῖσ δεινοῖσίν ἐστιν ἄλκιμοσ μισεῖ θ’ ὑβριστὴν λαόν, ὃσ πράσσων καλῶσ ἐσ ἄκρα βῆναι κλιμάκων ἐνήλατα ζητῶν ἀπώλεσ’ ὄλβον ᾧ χρῆσθαι παρῆν. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. lustful

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

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