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ἀκατάπαυστος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκατάπαυστος ἀκατάπαυστη ἀκατάπαυστον

Structure: ἀκαταπαυστ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: katapau/omai

Sense

  1. that cannot cease from tino/s

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τοῦ μὲν γὰρ βασιλέωσ οὐθεὶσ οὐθένα λόγον ἐποιεῖτο, περὶ δὲ τῆσ Ἀρσινόησ, ἀνανεούμενοι τινὲσ μὲν τὴν ὀρφανίαν αὐτῆσ, ἔνιοι δὲ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἐν τῷ ζῆν ὕβριν, ἣν ὑπέμεινε, καὶ τὴν αἰκίαν, σὺν δὲ τούτοισ τὸ περὶ τὴν τελευτὴν ἀτύχημα, εἰσ τοσαύτην παράστασιν ἐνέπιπτον καὶ δυσθυμίαν ὥστε πλήρη γενέσθαι τὴν πόλιν στεναγμοῦ, δακρύων, οἰμωγῆσ ἀκαταπαύστου. (Polybius, Histories, book 15, chapter 25 9:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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