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ἄπειρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπειρος ἀπείρου

Structure: ἀπειρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pei=ras, pe/ras

Sense

  1. Doric spelling of ἤπειρος ‎(ḗpeiros)

Declension

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

  • ὑμεῖσ δὲ ἰχθύων μὲν ἄγευστοι καὶ ἄσιτοι, ποδάγρασ δὲ ἢ περιπνευμονίασ οὐχ ὁρᾶθ̓ ὅτι καὶ τούτων ἄπειροί ἐστε, ἢ εἴ τι κατ̓ ἄλληνσσ1 τινὰ αἰτίαν συμβαίνει; (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 2 4:7)
  • ἀλλὰ τίνα φυγὴν φευξούμεθα πεδίων ἄπειροι βαρβάρου τ’ ὄντεσ χθονόσ; (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 17:9)
  • πολλοὶ δὲ δή που σχηματισμοὶ καὶ τῆσ λέξεώσ εἰσιν ὥσπερ καὶ τῆσ διανοίασ, οὓσ οὐχ οἱο͂́ν τε κεφαλαιωδῶσ περιλαβεῖν, ἴσωσ δὲ καὶ ἄπειροι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 83)
  • "ἐκεῖνοι μὲν γὰρ οἱ τῶν φιλοσόφων ἄνοσοι καὶ ἀγήραοι πόνων τ’ ἄπειροι, βαρυβόαν πορθμὸν πεφευγότεσ Ἀχέροντοσ· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 18 4:12)
  • οὐκοῦν ἄπειροι μὲν αἱ κατὰ μέροσ τῶν ἐθῶν καὶ τῶν νόμων παρὰ τοῖσ ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποισ διαφοραί, κεφαλαιωδῶσ ἂν ἐπίοι τισ· (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 115:1)

Synonyms

  1. Doric spelling of ἤπειρος ‎

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