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ὑπερασθενής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερασθενής ὑπερασθενές

Structure: ὑπερασθενη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. exceeding weak

Examples

  • ῥᾴστη γὰρ τῷ λόγῳ πειθαρχεῖν, ὑπέρκαλον δὲ ἢ ὑπερίσχυρον ἢ ὑπερευγενῆ ἢ ὑπερπλούσιον <ὄντα>, ἢ τἀναντία τούτοισ, ὑπέρπτωχον ἢ ὑπερασθενῆ ἢ σφόδρα ἄτιμον, χαλεπὸν τῷ λόγῳ ἀκολουθεῖν· (Aristotle, Politics, Book 4 161:1)

Synonyms

  1. exceeding weak

Similar forms

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

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