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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

  • ἀνυπερβλήτου δὲ τῆσ ἐκπλήξεωσ οὔσησ καὶ τῆσ ἐν τοῖσ ἀγῶσι δεινότητοσ ἀνυποστάτου γινομένησ οὐδ’ ὣσ ἔληγον τῆσ τόλμησ οἱ Μακεδόνεσ, ἀλλὰ τοὺσ ἀεὶ πίπτοντασ ὑπερβαίνοντεσ οὐκ ἐνουθετοῦντο ταῖσ τῶν ἄλλων συμφοραῖσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 45 1:1)
  • ἐκείνου γὰρ ἀνυποστάτου δοκοῦντοσ εἶναι κατὰ τὴν ἄθλησιν, καὶ τῆσ αὐτοῦ δόξησ ἐπιπολαζούσησ κατὰ πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην, Πτολεμαῖόν φασι τὸν βασιλέα φιλοδοξήσαντα πρὸσ τὸ καταλῦσαι τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ, παρασκευάσαντα μετὰ πολλῆσ φιλοτιμίασ Ἀριστόνικον τὸν πύκτην ἐξαποστεῖλαι, δοκοῦντα φύσιν ἔχειν ὑπερέχουσαν ἐπὶ ταύτην τὴν χρείαν· (Polybius, Histories, book 27, chapter 9 7:1)

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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