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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

  • Ἦν δὲ καὶ καθαρώτατοσ τὴν στολήν, ὡσ ἀνυπερβλήτῳ χρῆσθαι μαλακότητι ἱματίων, καθά φησιν Ἕρμιπποσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, E, Kef. d'. LUKWN 3:1)
  • Πεντεκαιδεκάτῳ γοῦν ἔτει τῆσ βασιλείασ αὐτόν τε τὸν ναὸν ἐπεσκεύασεν καὶ περὶ αὐτὸν ἀνετειχίσατο χώραν τῆσ οὔσησ διπλασίονα, ἀμέτροισ μὲν χρησάμενοσ τοῖσ ἀναλώμασιν ἀνυπερβλήτῳ δὲ τῇ πολυτελείᾳ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 572:1)
  • φασὶ δὲ τὸν ἄνδρα τοῦτον τὴν ἐσχάτην τραγῳδίαν εἰσαγαγόντα καὶ νικήσαντα χαρᾷ περιπεσεῖν ἀνυπερβλήτῳ, δι’ ἣν καὶ τελευτῆσαι. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 102 11:2)

Related

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

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