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ὑπερόπτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερόπτης

Structure: ὑπεροπτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: u(pero/yomai

Sense

  1. a contemner, disdainer of, disdainful, haughty

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

  • εἰ δέ τισ ὑπέροπτα χερσὶν ἢ λόγῳ πορεύεται, δίκασ ἀφόβητοσ οὐδὲ δαιμόνων ἕδη σέβων, κακά νιν ἕλοιτο μοῖρα, δυσπότμου χάριν χλιδᾶσ, εἰ μὴ τὸ κέρδοσ κερδανεῖ δικαίωσ καὶ τῶν ἀσέπτων ἔρξεται ἢ τῶν ἀθίκτων θίξεται ματᾴζων. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, choral, strophe 21)
  • ἀλλ’ οὕτωσ ὑπέροπτα καὶ ἄγρια κοὐδὲ πρέποντα κωμῳδῷ φθέγγῃ, πάνθ’ ὑποκρινόμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1933)

Synonyms

  1. a contemner

Related

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

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