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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

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

Related

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

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