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ἀνυπόστατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνυπόστατος ἀνυπόστατη ἀνυπόστατον

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

Etym.: u(fi/sthmi

Sense

  1. not to be withstood, irresistible

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

  • ἢ ποῦ γάρ ἐστιν ἡ πολυθρύλητοσ ἀρετὴ καὶ φύσισ καὶ εἱμαρμένη καὶ τύχη, ἀνυπόστατα καὶ κενὰ πραγμάτων ὀνόματα ὑπὸ βλακῶν ἀνθρώπων τῶν φιλοσόφων ἐπινοηθέντα ; (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 13:3)
  • ἔστι δ’, ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικασταί, ἀνυπόστατα μὲν τὰ τοιαῦτα τολμήματα· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 54:3)
  • τὰ μὲν ὦν πρῶτα πολλὰ καὶ χολοβαφέα· ἔπειτα θολερὰ, ἀνυπόστατα καὶ ἀκατάστατα · ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ καὶ ἡ ὑπόστασισ λευκὴ παρείη. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 243)

Synonyms

  1. not to be withstood

Related

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

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