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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

  • Ὀψὲ ζηλοτυπεῖσ, ὦ Ἐνιπεῦ, ὑπερόπτησ πρότερον ὤν· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, enipeus and poseidon, chapter 23)
  • καὶ μὴν εἴ τισ ὑπερόπτησ εἰή ἢ τύραννοσ πλούσιοσ ὑβριστήσ, ἀράμενοσ αὐτὸν ὅσον ἐπὶ σταδίουσ εἴκοσιν ἀφῆκα φέρεσθαι κατὰ τῶν κρημνῶν. (Lucian, 75:3)
  • φύσει δὲ βαρὺσ ὢν καὶ ὑπερόπτησ, καὶ τοῖσ λόγοισ οὐχ ἧττον ἢ τοῖσ πράγμασι τραχύσ, πολλοὺσ καὶ νέουσ καὶ δυνατοὺσ ἄνδρασ ἐξηγρίαινε καὶ παρώξυνε· (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 28 2:2)
  • τὸν δὲ ἄλλον τρόπον ἀνώμαλόσ τισ ἐοίκε γεγονέναι καὶ διάφοροσ πρὸσ ἑαυτόν, ἀφελέσθαι πολλά, χαρίσασθαι πλείονα, τιμῆσαι παραλόγωσ, παραλόγωσ ἐφυβρίσαι, θεραπεύειν ὧν δέοιτο, θρύπτεσθαι πρὸσ τοὺσ δεομένουσ, ὥστε ἀγνοεῖσθαι πότερον ὑπερόπτησ φύσει μᾶλλον ἢ κόλαξ γέγονε. (Plutarch, Sulla, chapter 6 7:4)
  • ἄγριοσ εἶ, πρὸσ πάντα παλίγκοτοσ, ἢ ὑπερόπτησ; (Theocritus, Idylls, 32)

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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