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ὑψίπυργος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑψίπυργος ὑψίπυργον

Structure: ὑψιπυργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. high-towered

Declension

First/Second declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ὑψίπυργος ὑψίπυργον
Genitive ὑψιπύργου ὑψιπύργου
Dative ὑψιπύργῳ ὑψιπύργῳ
Accusative ὑψίπυργον ὑψίπυργον
Vocative ὑψίπυργε ὑψίπυργον
DualN/A/V ὑψιπύργω ὑψιπύργω
G/D ὑψιπύργοιν ὑψιπύργοιν
PluralNominative ὑψίπυργοι ὑψίπυργα
Genitive ὑψιπύργων ὑψιπύργων
Dative ὑψιπύργοις ὑψιπύργοις
Accusative ὑψιπύργους ὑψίπυργα
Vocative ὑψίπυργοι ὑψίπυργα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὑψίπυργος ὑψιπύργου ὑψιπυργότερος ὑψιπυργοτέρου ὑψιπυργότατος ὑψιπυργοτάτου
Adverb ὑψιπύργως ὑψιπυργότερον ὑψιπυργότατα

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

  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἐπ’ ἀκτὰσ ἤλυθον Σκαμανδρίουσ, ἔθνῃσκον, οὐ γῆσ ὁρ́ι’ ἀποστερούμενοι οὐδ’ ὑψίπυργον πατρίδ’· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 1:19)
  • τούτου λέγοντοσ τἀνδρὸσ εἰσήκουσ’ ἐγώ, πολλῶν παρόντων μαρτύρων, ὡσ τῆσ κόρησ ταύτησ ἕκατι κεῖνοσ Εὔρυτόν θ’ ἕλοι τήν θ’ ὑψίπυργον Οἰχαλίαν, Ἔρωσ δέ νιν μόνοσ θεῶν θέλξειεν αἰχμάσαι τάδε, οὐ τἀπὶ Λυδοῖσ οὐδ’ ὑπ’ Ὀμφάλῃ πόνων λατρεύματ’ οὐδ’ ὁ ῥιπτὸσ Ἰφίτου μόροσ· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral 7:1)
  • πάγον δ’ Ἄρειον τόνδ’, Ἀμαζόνων ἕδραν σκηνάσ θ’, ὅτ’ ἦλθον Θησέωσ κατὰ φθόνον στρατηλατοῦσαι, καὶ πόλιν νεόπτολιν τήνδ’ ὑψίπυργον ἀντεπύργωσαν τότε, Ἄρει δ’ ἔθυον, ἔνθεν ἔστ’ ἐπώνυμοσ πέτρα, πάγοσ τ’ Ἄρειοσ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 7:9)

Synonyms

  1. high-towered

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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