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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

  • μὴ τοίνυν Λακεδαιμονίουσ παρὰ καιρὸν οἰκτείροντεσ ἄκαιρον πόλεμον τῇ πόλει μηδὲ τοῖσ Ἕλλησι περιστήσωμεν, ἀλλ’ ὑπομείνωμεν προστάται μᾶλλον τοῦ πρὸσ Λακεδαιμονίουσ πολέμου γενέσθαι ἢ ’κείνουσ ἀπαλλάξαντεσ αὐτοὶ πράγμασι καὶ κακοῖσ ἀνυποστάτοισ συνέχεσθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 21:15)

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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