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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

  • νῦν μὲν γὰρ οὐδὲ βουλομένοισ διαλύσασθαι ῥᾴδιον, ὅτε Ῥωμαίουσ μὲν ὑπερόπτασ πεποίηκεν ὑποχείριοσ ἡ Γαλιλαία, φέρει δ’ αἰσχύνην ἡμῖν θανάτου χαλεπωτέραν τὸ θεραπεύειν αὐτοὺσ ὄντασ ἤδη πλησίον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 285:1)
  • πολλοὶ γὰρ ἄγγελοι θεοῦ γυναιξὶ συνιόντεσ ὑβριστὰσ ἐγέννησαν παῖδασ καὶ παντὸσ ὑπερόπτασ καλοῦ διὰ τὴν ἐπὶ τῇ δυνάμει πεποίθησιν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 89:1)

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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