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χαλεπότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλεπότης χαλεπότητος

Structure: χαλεποτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: xalepo/s

Sense

  1. difficulty, ruggedness
  2. difficulty, harshness, rigour, severity
  3. ill-temper, vice

Declension

Third declension

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

  • οὐ μὴν ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνο μὲν ἐπιεικείασ δοκεῖ καὶ φιλανθρωπίασ εἶναι, τοῦτο δὲ φιλαυτίασ ἁμάρτημα καὶ χαλεπότητοσ. (Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus, chapter 2 2:1)
  • ὧν δύο τοὺσ ἐν ἡλικίᾳ συγγενεῖσ ὄντασ ἅμα καὶ συνήθεισ οἱ Οὐιτέλλιοι προσηγάγοντο καὶ συνέπεισαν ἐν τῇ προδοσίᾳ γενέσθαι καὶ καταμίξαντασ ἑαυτοὺσ εἰσ γένοσ μέγα τὸ τῶν Ταρκυνίων καὶ βασιλικὰσ ἐλπίδασ ἀπαλλαγῆναι τῆσ τοῦ πατρὸσ ἀβελτερίασ καὶ χαλεπότητοσ· (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 3 4:1)
  • τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ τρόπον ληπτέον καὶ περὶ πραότητοσ καὶ χαλεπότητοσ· (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 3 79:1)
  • ἴδωμεν ῥᾳστώνησ τε πέρι καὶ χαλεπότητοσ πρὸσ τὸ τοῖσ ὁρῶσιν δοκεῖν ἀποχρώντωσ μεμιμῆσθαι, καὶ κατοψόμεθα ὅτι γῆν μὲν καὶ ὄρη καὶ ποταμοὺσ καὶ ὕλην οὐρανόν τε σύμπαντα καὶ τὰ περὶ αὐτὸν ὄντα καὶ ἰόντα πρῶτον μὲν ἀγαπῶμεν ἄν τίσ τι καὶ βραχὺ πρὸσ ὁμοιότητα αὐτῶν ἀπομιμεῖσθαι δυνατὸσ ᾖ, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ, ἅτε οὐδὲν εἰδότεσ ἀκριβὲσ περὶ τῶν τοιούτων, οὔτε ἐξετάζομεν οὔτε ἐλέγχομεν τὰ γεγραμμένα, σκιαγραφίᾳ δὲ ἀσαφεῖ καὶ ἀπατηλῷ χρώμεθα περὶ αὐτά· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 8:1)
  • ἴσωσ δὲ καὶ τῆσ χαλεπότητοσ οὔσησ κατὰ δύο τρόπουσ, οὐκ ἐν τοῖσ πράγμασιν ἀλλ’ ἐν ἡμῖν τὸ αἴτιον αὐτῆσ· (Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 2 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. difficulty

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

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