Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὕπτιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὕπτιος ὕπτιη ὕπτιον

Structure: ὑπτι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: 라틴어 sub에서 supinus가 파생되었듯이, u(po/에서 파생되었음.

Sense

  1. laid back, laid on one's back, backwards, falling backwards
  2. with the under side uppermost, the hollow of, upturned, with the hollow uppermost, with the concave side uppermost, with the bottom uppermost, on the back
  3. sloping evenly

Examples

  • ὑπὲρ δὲ τὰσ πυγὰσ ἑκάστῳ αὐτῶν κράμβη ἐκπέφυκε μακρὰ ὥσπερ οὐρά, θάλλουσα ἐσ ἀεὶ καὶ ὑπτίου ἀναπίπτοντοσ οὐ κατακλωμένη. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 23:13)
  • τρίτῳ γὰρ Ἐτεόκλῳ τρίτοσ πάλοσ ἐξ ὑπτίου ’πήδησεν εὐχάλκου κράνουσ, πύλαισι Νηίστῃσι προσβαλεῖν λόχον. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 1 1:2)
  • Θανατῶδεσ δὲ καὶ τὸ κεχηνότα καθεύδειν αἰεὶ, καὶ τὰ σκέλεα ὑπτίου κειμένου ξυγκεκαμμένα εἶναι ἰσχυρῶσ, καὶ διαπεπλεγμένα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., PROGNWSTIKON, 3.5)
  • δίζηται δὲ ταῦτα ἐπὶ τούτῳ τεταγμένοσ τῶν τισ ἱρέων καὶ ὀρθοῦ ἑστεῶτοσ τοῦ κτήνεοσ καὶ ὑπτίου, καὶ τὴν γλῶσσαν ἐξειρύσασ, εἰ καθαρὴ τῶν προκειμένων σημηίων, τὰ ἐγὼ ἐν ἄλλῳ λόγῳ ἐρέω· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 38 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. sloping evenly

Related

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

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