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ὑπερφυής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερφυής ὑπερφυές

Structure: ὑπερφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fu/omai

Sense

  1. overgrown, enormous
  2. monstrous, marvellous, extraordinary, extraordinary, great, extraordinarily great
  3. over-much, marvellously, strangely, exceedingly

Declension

Third declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ὑπερφυής ὑπέρφυες
Genitive ὑπερφυούς ὑπερφύους
Dative ὑπερφυεί ὑπερφύει
Accusative ὑπερφυή ὑπέρφυες
Vocative ὑπερφυές ὑπέρφυες
DualN/A/V ὑπερφυεί ὑπερφύει
G/D ὑπερφυοίν ὑπερφύοιν
PluralNominative ὑπερφυείς ὑπερφύη
Genitive ὑπερφυών ὑπερφύων
Dative ὑπερφυέσιν* ὑπερφύεσιν*
Accusative ὑπερφυείς ὑπερφύη
Vocative ὑπερφυείς ὑπερφύη
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὑπερφυής ὑπερφυούς ὑπερφυέστερος ὑπερφυεστέρου ὑπερφυέστατος ὑπερφυεστάτου
Adverb ὑπερφυέως ὑπερφυέστερον ὑπερφυέστατα

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

  • καὶ στρατηγῷ θαυμαζομένῳ δι’ ἐμπειρίαν πολεμικὴν ἢ εὐτυχίαν, περὶ πραότητόσ τε καὶ δικαιοσύνησ αὐτοῦ παρρησιάσασθαι καὶ τοὐναντίον αὖ πάλιν, ὑπερφυῶν τινων λεγομένων ἐπαίνων, οἱᾶ πολλοὶ κολακεύοντεσ ἐπίφθονα λέγουσιν, εἰπεῖν οὔ τίσ τοι θεόσ εἰμι· (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 12 8:1)
  • ἑστᾶσι καὶ βωμοὶ παρὰ τοῖσ θεοῖσ, μόνοσ δὲ τἀληθὲσ Ἡρόδοτοσ ἔγνω, τοὺσ δ’ ἄλλουσ ἅπαντασ ἀνθρώπουσ, ὅσοι λόγον Ἑλλήνων ἔχουσιν, ἐξηπάτηκεν ἡ φήμη τῶν τότε κατορθωμάτων, ὡσ ὑπερφυῶν γενομένων; (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 43 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. monstrous

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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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