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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

  • Ὁ γὰρ Ξενοίτασ ὁ στρατηγὸσ ἀποσταλεὶσ αὐτοκράτωρ, καθάπερ ἐπάνω προεῖπα, καὶ μείζονοσ ἐξουσίασ ἢ κατὰ τὴν προσδοκίαν τυχών, ὑπεροπτικώτερον μὲν ἐχρῆτο τοῖσ αὑτοῦ φίλοισ, θρασύτερον δὲ ταῖσ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐχθροὺσ ἐπιβολαῖσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 46 6:1)

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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