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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

  • καὶ οὐκ εἶπαν. ποῦ ἐστι Κύριοσ ὁ ἀναγαγὼν ἡμᾶσ ἐκ γῆσ Αἰγύπτου, ὁ καθοδηγήσασ ἡμᾶσ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, ἐν γῇ ἀπείρῳ καὶ ἀβάτῳ, ἐν γῇ ἀνύδρῳ καὶ ἀκάρπῳ, ἐν γῇ, ᾗ οὐ διώδευσεν ἐν αὐτῇ ἀνὴρ οὐθὲν καὶ οὐ κατῴκησεν ἐκεῖ υἱὸσ ἀνθρώπου̣ (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 2:5)
  • τοῦτο δέ, οὑτωσὶ μὲν ἁπλῶσ ἀκοῦσαι, πάνυ εὔλογον ἂν δόξειεν, καὶ μάλιστα ἰδιώτῃ καὶ ἀπείρῳ ἰατρικῆσ· (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 26:4)
  • ᾧ παρθένοι μὲν τρεῖσ ἔφυμεν ἐκ μιᾶσ, Χρυσόθεμισ Ἰφιγένειά τ’ Ἠλέκτρα τ’ ἐγώ, ἄρσην δ’ Ὀρέστησ, μητρὸσ ἀνοσιωτάτησ, ἣ πόσιν ἀπείρῳ περιβαλοῦσ’ ὑφάσματι ἔκτεινεν· (Euripides, episode 1:11)
  • "τῷ δ’ ἀπείρῳ μήτε ἀρχὴν ἔχοντι μήτε πέρασ οὐ προσήκει μέσον ἔχειν· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 113)
  • "τὸ γὰρ πᾶν οὐδὲ τούτῳ μέσην ἀπέλιπεν , ἀλλ’ ἀνέστιοσ καὶ ἀνίδρυτόσ ἐστιν ἐν ἀπείρῳ κενῷ φερόμενοσ πρὸσ οὐδὲν οἰκεῖον, ἢ ἄλλην τινὰ τοῦ μένειν εὑράμενοσ αἰτίαν ἕστηκεν, οὐ κατὰ τὴν τοῦ τόπου φύσιν. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 116)

Synonyms

  1. Doric spelling of ἤπειρος ‎

Similar forms

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