λύπη

Of uncertain origin. The traditional connection to Sanskrit लुप् (lup, “to break, tear apart”) can be dismissed, as the Sanskrit root is much more likely from Proto-Indo-European *Hrewp- (“to break, tear up”), which cannot produce the Greek term.

Beekes tentatively prefers a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *lewp- (“to peel off”), whence Proto-Balto-Slavic *láupīˀtei (“to cause to bend; to peel”). While phonetically sound and semantically possible, the lack of evidence directly connecting the Greek sense of "grief, pain" to the hypothetical original "peeling, breaking" sense renders the etymology uncertain.^[1]

λῡ́πη • (lū́pē) f (genitive λῡ́πης); first declension

1. grief, sadness
2. pain (of mind or body), suffering, affliction, distress

   Antonym: ἡδονή (hēdonḗ)

• Greek: λύπη (lýpi)

• “λύπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “λύπη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• λύπη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • ache idem, page 8.
  • affliction idem, page 17.
  • anguish idem, page 29.
  • annoyance idem, page 31.
  • bitterness idem, page 80.
  • distress idem, page 242.
  • misery idem, page 534.
  • pain idem, page 588.
  • pique idem, page 614.
  • sadness idem, page 730.
  • smart idem, page 786.
  • suffering idem, page 835.
  • tenderness idem, page 861.
  • torment idem, page 881.
  • torture idem, page 884.
  • trouble idem, page 897.
  • twinge idem, page 903.
  • unhappiness idem, page 920.
  • vexation idem, page 949.
  • woe idem, page 986.
  • worry idem, page 990.
  • wound idem, page 991.

From Ancient Greek λύπη (lúpē).

λύπη • (lýpi) f (plural λύπες)

1. sorrow, sadness, unhappiness
2. suffering
3. pity, compassion

• (sorrow): θλίψη f (thlípsi)
• (suffering): οδύνη f (odýni)

• see: λυπώ (lypó, “to sadden”)

• λύπη, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής , Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language