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ἀπερίληπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπερίληπτος ἀπερίληπτη ἀπερίληπτον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + περιληπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: perilamba/nw

Sense

  1. uncircumscribed

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

  • εἶναι δὲ τὰ σχήματα τῶν ἀτόμων ἀπερίληπτα οὐκ ἄπειρα μὴ γὰρ εἶναι μήτ’ ἀγκιστροειδεῖσ μήτε τριαινοειδεῖσ μήτε κρικοειδεῖσ · (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, chapter 3 38:1)
  • Ἐπίκουροσ δ’ ἀπερίληπτα εἶναι τὰ σώματα καὶ τὰ πρῶτα δ’ ἁπλᾶ, τὰ δ’ ἐξ ἐκείνων συγκρίματα πάντα βάροσ ἔχειν · (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, 4:5)
  • "Πρόσ τε τούτοισ τὰ ἄτομα τῶν σωμάτων καὶ μεστά, ἐξ ὧν καὶ αἱ συγκρίσεισ γίνονται καὶ εἰσ ἃ διαλύονται, ἀπερίληπτά ἐστι ταῖσ διαφοραῖσ τῶν σχημάτων· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 42:3)

Derived

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

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