Sisyphus
pronunciation
How to pronounce Sisyphus in British English:
UK [ˈsisifəs]
How to pronounce Sisyphus in American English:
US [ˈsɪsəfəs]
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- Noun:
- (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
Word Origin
- Sisyphus
- King of Corinth, famed as "the craftiest of men," he was condemned in the afterlife to roll uphill a stone which perpetually rolls down again; Greek Sisyphos, a name of unknown origin. Liddell & Scott suggest a reduplication of syphos "the crafty" (with Aeolic -u- for -o-), but Klein calls this folk-etymology.
Example
- 1. One must imagine sisyphus happy .
- 2. Therefore wu sometimes gets holiday , but sisyphus does not .
- 3. It is during that return , that pause , that sisyphus interests me .
- 4. Silent god and attentively listening sisyphus .
- 5. For a big country to deflate its way to health , in these circumstances , is a labour of sisyphus .