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ὑπεναντίος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπεναντίος ὑπεναντίη ὑπεναντίον

Structure: ὑπεναντι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. set over against, meeting
  2. set against, opposite, the enemy
  3. opposed, opposite, opposite or contrary to, the contrary, on the contrary
  4. in a manner contrary to

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ὧν τὴν μὲν ἴσῳ κατ’ ἀριθμὸν ὑπερέχουσαν ἴσῳ δ’ ὑπερεχομένην ἀριθμητικὴν οἱ νῦν καλοῦσι, τὴν δὲ ταὐτῷ μέρει τῶν ἄκρων αὐτῶν ὑπερέχουσαν καὶ ὑπερεχομένην ὑπεναντίαν. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 15 2:3)
  • εἰ δέ, ὥσπερ μεμαρτύρηκεν, ἐπῆν διαθήκη Πασίωνοσ, πῶσ οὐκ ἂν ἀνῃρήμην αὐτὴν ἐγώ, συνειδὼσ μὲν ἐμαυτῷ μέλλοντι δικάζεσθαι, συνειδὼσ δ’ ὑπεναντίαν οὖσαν, εἴπερ ἦν τοιαύτη, τοῖσ ἐμαυτῷ συμφέρουσιν, κληρονόμοσ δ’ ὢν καὶ ταύτησ, εἴπερ ἦν τοὐμοῦ πατρόσ, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων <τῶν> πατρῴων ὁμοίωσ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 28:2)
  • γίνεσθαι μὲν γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ χρῆσθαι τῇ θαλάττῃ διαπέμποντασ καὶ δεχομένουσ ἐμπόρων πλῆθοσ, ὑπεναντίαν δ’ εἶναι πρὸσ τὸ πολιτεύεσθαι καλῶσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 7 94:1)
  • πρότερον δ’ ὅτι τὴν ἐπιχείρησιν ὑπεναντίαν τοῖσ προτεθεῖσι πεποίηνται. (Strabo, Geography, Book 7, chapter 3 14:2)
  • διὸ καὶ συμβαίνει τὴν ὑπεναντίαν φύσιν ἔχειν τοῦτον τοῖσ πλείστοισ τῶν ποταμῶν. (Polybius, Histories, book 9, viii. res asiae 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. set over against

  2. set against

  3. opposed

  4. in a manner contrary to

Related

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

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