λυπηρά (lypera)

λυπηρά is an Ancient Greek form of λυπηρός, meaning “painful, distressing”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective.

Found 57 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Ion 623: λυπηρά· τίς γὰρ μακάριος, τίς εὐτυχής,

Plutarch, Camillus 8.1: … ὰρ ἦν ἀνάδαστον μὴ γενέσθαι, τοὺς δὲ λαβόντας αὐτοὺς σὺν ὅρκῳ τὴν δεκάτην παραφέρειν εἰς μέσον, ἐγίνετο πολλὰ λυπηρὰ καὶ βίαια περὶ τοὺς στρατιώτας, ἀνθρώπους πένητας καὶ πολλὰ πεπονηκότας, ἀναγκαζομένους ὧν ἐκέκτηντο καὶ κατε …

All forms of λυπηρός (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.