regret
From LSJ
Κρόνου καὶ Ἰαπετοῦ ἀρχαιότερος → more ancient than Cronos and Iapetus, ante-preadamite, antediluvian
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
remorse: P. and V. μεταμέλεια, ἡ (Euripides, Fragment), P. μετάνοια, ἡ, μετάμελος, ὁ, V. μετάγνοια, ἡ. sorrow for something lost or absent: P. and V. πόθος, ὁ (Plato).
tears of regret: V. ποθεινὰ δάκρυα, τά.
verb transitive
repent of: P. and V. μεταγιγνώσκειν (acc.).
I regret: Ar. and P. μεταμέλει μοι (gen.).
they regretted that they had not accepted the proposals for a truce: P. μετεμέλοντο τὰς σπονδὰς οὐ δεξάμενοι (Thuc., 4, 27).
miss, feel the loss of: P. and V. ποθεῖν (acc.).
lament: Ar. and P. ἀγανακτεῖν (dat.), χαλεπαίνειν (dat.), V. πικρῶς φέρω, πικρῶς φέρειν, δυσφορεῖν (dat.).
rue: V. ἀσχάλλειν (dat.) (Aesch. Prometheus Vinctus 764).
