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ὑπέροχος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπέροχος ὑπέροχη ὑπέροχον

Structure: ὑπεροχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: u(pere/xw II

Sense

  1. prominent, eminent, distinguished above, overbearing

Examples

  • ἔφιπποσ γοῦν ἐν Γηρυόνῃ φησὶν ἔπειτα πῶσ οὐ στέφανοσ οὐδείσ ἐστι πρόσθε τῶν θυρῶν, οὐ κνῖσα κρούει ῥινὸσ ὑπεροχὰσ ἄκρασ Ἀμφιδρομίων ὄντων; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 102)
  • "καὶ μὴν οὐδὲ τῶν ὀρῶν τὰσ ὑπεροχὰσ ἐῶσι μεθ’ ἡμέραν αἱ περιαυγαὶ τοῦ ἡλίου καθορᾶσθαι, τὰ μέντοι βαθέα καὶ κοῖλα φαίνεται καὶ σκιώδη πόρρωθεν. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 22 3:5)
  • "ὡσ γίγνεσθαι τὰσ ὑπεροχὰσ τῶν πρόσ τι· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 2314)
  • ἡ δὲ τῆσ νεάτησ ὑπεροχὴ καὶ τῆσ μέσησ κατ’ ἀριθμητικὸν λόγον ἴσῳ μέρει τὰσ ὑπεροχὰσ ἐμφαίνουσιν, ὡσαύτωσ καὶ ἡ παραμέση τῆσ ὑπάτησ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 2318)
  • εἰσ σχῆμα δ’ ἀναλογίασ οὐ δεῖ ἄγειν, ὅταν ἀλλάξωνται εἰ δὲ μή, ἀμφοτέρασ ἕξει τὰσ ὑπεροχὰσ τὸ ἕτερον ἄκρον, ἀλλ’ ὅταν ἔχωσι τὰ αὑτῶν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 5 74:1)

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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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