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ὑπέρτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπέρτερος ὑπέρτερᾱ ὑπέρτερον

Structure: ὑπερτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. comp. from u(pe/r

Sense

  1. over or above, upper, from the outer parts of a victim
  2. higher, nobler, more excellent, stronger, mightier
  3. victorious or triumphant over, further, more certain
  4. better than

Examples

  • ἄλλωσ τε καὶ ὅ τι ἂν κακόν τισ ποιῇ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, τοῦτο καὶ παρὰ θεοῖσ καὶ παρὰ ἀνθρώποισ δίκησ ὑπέρτερον νομίζεσθαι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 3 1:2)
  • τοῦτο καὶ παρὰ θεοῖσ καὶ παρὰ ἀνθρώποισ δίκησ ὑπέρτερον νομίζεσθαι. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 3 1:1)
  • ὄμνυσι δ’ αἰχμὴν ἣν ἔχει μᾶλλον θεοῦ σέβειν πεποιθὼσ ὀμμάτων θ’ ὑπέρτερον, ἦ μὴν λαπάξειν ἄστυ Καδμείων βίᾳ Διόσ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 2 1:3)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ φροῦδόσ ἐστιν Ἀργείων στρατὸσ ἐν νυκτὶ τῇ νῦν, οὐδὲν οἶδ’ ὑπέρτερον, οὔτ’ εὐτυχοῦσα μᾶλλον οὔτ’ ἀτωμένη. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 1:7)
  • τάχ’ εἰσόμεσθα μάντεων ὑπέρτερον. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode1)

Synonyms

  1. victorious or triumphant over

  2. better than

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

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