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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

  • τοῖσ δὲ σπληνιῶσιν ἐδόκει βοηθεῖν, ἀλεκτρυόνα θύων λευκόν, ὑπτίων τε κατακειμένων τῷ δεξιῷ ποδὶ πιέζων ἀτρέμα τὸ σπλάγχνον. (Plutarch, chapter 3 4:2)
  • ἔνθα οἱ Μιλήσιοί τε καὶ οἱ μισθοφόροι πανταχόθεν ἤδη προσκειμένων σφίσι τῶν Μακεδόνων οἱ μὲν αὐτῶν ῥιπτοῦντεσ σφᾶσ ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀσπίδων ὑπτίων ἐσ νησῖδά τινα ἀνώνυμον τῇ πόλει ἐπικειμένην διενήχοντο, οἱ δὲ ἐσ κελήτια ἐμβαίνοντεσ καὶ ἐπειγόμενοι ὑποφθάσαι τὰσ τριήρεισ τῶν Μακεδόνων τριήρων· (Arrian, Anabasis, book 1, chapter 19 4:1)
  • "λέγουσι δὲ καὶ τὰ ὄμματα τῶν ὑῶν οὕτωσ ἐγκεκλάσθαι καὶ κατεσπάσθαι ταῖσ ὄψεσιν, ὥστε μηδενὸσ ἀντιλαμβάνεσθαι μηδέποτε τῶν ἄνω μηδὲ προσορᾶν τὸν οὐρανόν, ἂν μὴ φερομένων ὑπτίων ἀναστροφήν τινα παρὰ φύσιν αἱ κόραι λάβωσι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 6:11)
  • καὶ τὸν μὲν τῶν σημαινομένων εἴσ τε τὸν περὶ τῶν φαντασιῶν τόπον καὶ τῶν ἐκ τούτων ὑφισταμένων λεκτῶν ἀξιωμάτων καὶ αὐτοτελῶν καὶ κατηγορημάτων καὶ τῶν ὁμοίων ὀρθῶν καὶ ὑπτίων καὶ γενῶν καὶ εἰδῶν, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ λόγων καὶ τρόπων καὶ συλλογισμῶν καὶ τῶν παρὰ τὴν φωνὴν καὶ τὰ πράγματα σοφισμάτων· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 43:4)
  • Ἐν δὲ τῷ περὶ τῶν πραγμάτων καὶ τῶν σημαινομένων τόπῳ τέτακται ὁ περὶ λεκτῶν καὶ αὐτοτελῶν καὶ ἀξιωμάτων καὶ συλλογισμῶν λόγοσ καὶ ὁ περὶ ἐλλιπῶν τε καὶ κατηγορημάτων καὶ ὀρθῶν καὶ ὑπτίων. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 63:1)

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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