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ὑπεροπτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπεροπτικός ὑπεροπτική ὑπεροπτικόν

Structure: ὑπεροπτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from u(pero/pths

Sense

  1. disposed to despise others, contemptuous, disdainful

Declension

First/Second 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

  • πολλὴ δὲ καὶ ἡ τῶν κώλων ἀσυμμετρία πρὸσ ἄλληλα καὶ ἡ τῶν περιόδων ἀνωμαλία καὶ ἡ τῶν σχημάτων καινότησ καὶ τὸ τῆσ ἀκολουθίασ ὑπεροπτικὸν καὶ τἆλλα ὅσα χαρακτηρικὰ τῆσ ἀκομψεύτου τε καὶ αὐστηρᾶσ ἐπελογισάμην ὄντα ἁρμονίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2292)
  • τοῦτο δ’ αὐτοῦ τὸ ὑπεροπτικὸν καὶ μεγαλόφρον ἐμφαίνει καὶ Ἀριστοφάνησ λέγων οὕτωσ, ὅτι βρενθύει τ’ ἐν ταῖσιν ὁδοῖσ, καὶ τὠφθαλμὼ παραβάλλεισ, κἀνυπόδητοσ κακὰ πόλλ’ ἀνέχει, κἀν ἡμῖν σεμνοπροσωπεῖσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, B, Kef. e'. SWKRATHS 11:9)

Synonyms

  1. disposed to despise others

Related

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

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