# ὑψηλός
## Ancient Greek
### Etymology

From ὕψι (húpsi, “high”), ὕψος (húpsos, “height, summit”) +‎ -λός (-lós). Compare Proto-Celtic *ouxselos, whence Old Irish úasal, Welsh uchel and the first part of Gaulish Uxellodunum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hyp.sɛː.lós/ → /yp.siˈlos/ → /ip.siˈlos/
* (5th BCE Attic) IPA: /hyp.sɛː.lós/
* (1st CE Egyptian) IPA: /(h)yp.se̝ˈlos/
* (4th CE Koine) IPA: /yp.siˈlos/
* (10th CE Byzantine) IPA: /yp.siˈlos/
* (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA: /ip.siˈlos/

### Adjective

ῠ̔ψηλός • (hupsēlós) m (feminine ῠ̔ψηλή, neuter ῠ̔ψηλόν); first/second declension
* high, lofty
** 110 CE – 180 CE, Pausanias Periegeta, Graeciae Descriptio 5.13.9
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 1.426
** 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.384
** 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.110
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.97
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 732C
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 4.5.4
** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, A Professor of Public Speaking 6
** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Eumenes 17
** 366 BCE – 348 BCE, Plato, Theaetetus 175D
** 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 6.2.29
** 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 7.4
** 5th century BC, Pherecrates, Fragmenta 64
* (figuratively) high, lofty, stately, proud
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.22
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 5.1
** 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Pythian Ode 3.111
** 380 BCE, Plato, Euthydemus 289E
** 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Epistles 341E
** 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 1230
** (of persons)
*** 412 BCE, Euripides, Helen 418
*** 430 BCE, Euripides, Herakles' Children 613
*** 428 BCE, Euripides, Hippolytus 730
*** 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 494D
*** 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Peace 7
*** 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, On the Embassy 174
*** 423 BCE, Euripides, The Suppliants 555
*** Metrodorus, Fragments 57
*** 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, Nigrinus 25
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Dion 4
** (of poets) sublime
*** 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 40.2
*** 213 CE – 273 CE, Cassius Longinus, Collected Works 43.3
*** 60 BCE – 7 BCE, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Commentaries on the Attic Orators: On Lysias 13
*** 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Pericles 5
*** 129 CE – 216 CE, Galen, Collected Works 10.12

#### Derived terms

* ῠ̔ψηλόκρημνος (hupsēlókrēmnos)

#### Descendants

* Greek: ψηλός (psilós), υψηλός (ypsilós)

### References

* ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “ὕψι ( > DER > 4. ὑψηλός)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1541

### Further reading

* “ὑψηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ὑψηλός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ὑψηλός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
* ὑψηλός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
* ὑψηλός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
* “ὑψηλός”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
* G5308 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
* Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited. boastful idem, page 87.braggart idem, page 93.branching idem, page 93.contemptuous idem, page 167.disdainful idem, page 232.grandiloquent idem, page 369.haughty idem, page 388.high idem, page 399.highest idem, page 400.hilly idem, page 400.inflated idem, page 438.lofty idem, page 497.magniloquent idem, page 507.majestic idem, page 508.proud idem, page 653.scornful idem, page 741.sonorous idem, page 793.sounding idem, page 796.sublime idem, page 831.supercilious idem, page 838.swelling idem, page 848.towering idem, page 884.vain idem, page 942.