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ἀνυπέρβλητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνυπέρβλητος ἀνυπέρβλητη ἀνυπέρβλητον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + νυπερβλητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: u(perba/llw

Sense

  1. not to be surpassed or outdone

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

  • γήμασ δὲ Γῆν ἐτέκνωσε πρώτουσ τοὺσ ἑκατόγχειρασ προσαγορευθέντασ, Βριάρεων Γύην Κόττον, οἳ μεγέθει τε ἀνυπέρβλητοι καὶ δυνάμει καθειστήκεσαν, χεῖρασ μὲν ἀνὰ ἑκατὸν κεφαλὰσ δὲ ἀνὰ πεντήκοντα ἔχοντεσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 1 2:2)
  • οἱ δὲ τοῦ κρατίστου καὶ ἰσχυροτάτου ζῴου δεσπόζοντεσ ἀνυπέρβλητοι τὴν δύναμιν οὗτοι καὶ τὴν ἰσχὺν εἰκότωσ ἂν εἰε͂ν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 11 56:2)

Related

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

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