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ἀπειρέσιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπειρέσιος ἀπειρέσιη ἀπειρέσιον

Structure: ἀπειρεσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/peiros2

Sense

  1. boundless, immense, countless

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

  • Πυθέα μνῆμα τόδ’ ἔστ’, ἀγαθοῦ καὶ σώφρονοσ ἀνδρόσ, ὃσ κυλίκων ἔσχεν πλῆθοσ ἀπειρέσιον ἀργυρέων χρυσοῦ τε καὶ ἠλέκτροιο φαεινοῦ, τῶν προτέρων πάντων πλείονα πασάμενοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 14 2:2)
  • ἔμελλεσ, τάλασ, ἔμελλεσ χρόνῳ στερεόφρων ἄρ’ ἐξανύσσειν κακὰν μοῖραν ἀπειρεσίων πόνων. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ἀπειρέσιοι δ’ ἐνὶ μέσσῳ κεῖσέ τε δεῦρό τ’ ἐάσιν ἀνερχομένοισιν ἀέθλοι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 8:27)
  • ] τοὺσ παραμειβόμενοι λισσῇ ἐπικέλσετε νήσῳ, μήτι παντοίῃ μέγ’ ἀναιδέασ ἐξελάσαντεσ οἰωνούσ, οἳ δῆθεν ἀπειρέσιοι ἐφέπουσιν νῆσον ἐρημαίην. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 6:33)
  • ὡσ μὲν γὰρ πατέρ’ ὑμὸν ὑπεξείρυτο φόνοιο μητρυιῆσ, καὶ νόσφιν ἀπειρέσιον πόρεν ὄλβον· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 20:3)

Synonyms

  1. boundless

Related

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

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