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ὑψηλόφρων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑψηλόφρων ὑψηλόφρονος

Structure: ὑψηλοφρων (Stem)

Etym.: frh/n

Sense

  1. high-minded, high-spirited, haughty

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑψηλόφρων ὑψηλόφρονε ὑψηλόφρονες
Genitive ὑψηλόφρονος ὑψηλοφρόνοιν ὑψηλοφρόνων
Dative ὑψηλόφρονι ὑψηλοφρόνοιν ὑψηλόφροσιν*
Accusative ὑψηλόφρονα ὑψηλόφρονε ὑψηλόφρονας
Vocative ὑψηλόφρων ὑψηλόφρονε ὑψηλόφρονες

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

  • ὑψηλόφρων μοι θυμὸσ αἴρεται πρόσω· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 1:2)
  • τούτων, τοῦ μὲν πατρὸσ αὐτοῦ τὸ λογιστικὸν ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ ἄρδοντόσ τε καὶ αὔξοντοσ, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων τό τε ἐπιθυμητικὸν καὶ τὸ θυμοειδέσ, διὰ τὸ μὴ κακοῦ ἀνδρὸσ εἶναι τὴν φύσιν, ὁμιλίαισ δὲ ταῖσ τῶν ἄλλων κακαῖσ κεχρῆσθαι, εἰσ τὸ μέσον ἑλκόμενοσ ὑπ’ ἀμφοτέρων τούτων ἦλθε, καὶ τὴν ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἀρχὴν παρέδωκε τῷ μέσῳ τε καὶ φιλονίκῳ καὶ θυμοειδεῖ, καὶ ἐγένετο ὑψηλόφρων τε καὶ φιλότιμοσ ἀνήρ. (Plato, Republic, book 8 109:1)

Synonyms

  1. high-minded

Similar forms

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

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