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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑπερόπτης ὑπερόπτᾱ ὑπερόπται
Genitive ὑπερόπτου ὑπερόπταιν ὑπεροπτῶν
Dative ὑπερόπτῃ ὑπερόπταιν ὑπερόπταις
Accusative ὑπερόπτην ὑπερόπτᾱ ὑπερόπτᾱς
Vocative ὑπερόπτα ὑπερόπτᾱ ὑπερόπται

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

  • ἐνίουσ δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐγνωρίσαμεν ἰδόντεσ, ὁπόσοι ἦσαν τῶν ἔναγχοσ τετελευτηκότων οἱ δὲ ἐνεκαλύπτοντό τε καὶ ἀπεστρέφοντο, εἰ δὲ καὶ προσβλέποιεν, μάλα δουλοπρεπέσ τι καὶ κολακευτικόν, καὶ ταῦτα πῶσ οἰεί βαρεῖσ ὄντεσ καὶ ὑπερόπται παρὰ τὸν βίον; (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 14:4)
  • ὑπερόπται γὰρ αἰσθανόμενοι γίγνονται παῦ̓, ὦ τάλαινα, δακρύουσα, καὶ ἤν μοι πείθῃ, ἅπαξ ἢ δὶσ ἀπόκλεισον ἐλθόντα· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:18)
  • μιαρὸν τὸ φῦλον, ὑποκριταὶ φιλίασ, ἄγευστοι παρρησίασ, πλουσίων μὲν κόλακεσ πενήτων δ’ ὑπερόπται, ὡσ ἐκ λυρικῆσ τέχνησ ἐπὶ τοὺσ· (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 17 13:1)
  • διὸ ὑπερόπται δοκοῦσιν εἶναι. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 78:1)
  • ὑπερόπται δὲ καὶ ὑβρισταὶ καὶ οἱ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἔχοντεσ ἀγαθὰ γίνονται. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 79:5)

Synonyms

  1. a contemner

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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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