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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

  • "ὁρ́α μὲν οἱάσ ὑποτίθεσθε πρὸσ γένεσιν ἀρχάσ, ἀπειρίαν καὶ κενόν ὧν τὸ μὲν ἄπρακτον ἀπαθὲσ ἀσώματον, ἡ δ’ ἄτακτοσ ἄλογοσ ἀπερίληπτοσ, αὑτὴν ἀναλύουσα καὶ ταράττουσα τῷ μὴ κρατεῖσθαι μηδ’ ὁρίζεσθαι διὰ πλῆθοσ. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 135)
  • ἀναγνωσθέντων δὲ τούτων ὁ μὲν δῆμοσ ὑπερφυῶσ ἐδέξατο, τῆσ δὲ συγκλήτου τοῖσ μεγίστοισ καὶ δυνατωτάτοισ ἔδοξε μεῖζον μὲν φθόνου, φόβου δὲ ἄξιον εἶναι τὸ τῆσ ἐξουσίασ ἀπερίληπτον καὶ ἀόριστον. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 25 3:2)
  • ὁ γὰρ νοῦσ κατὰ μονάδα θεωρεῖται, οἱο͂ν πολλῶν ὄντων ἀνθρώπων οἱ μὲν ἐπὶ μέρουσ εἰσὶν ἀναίσθητοι ἀπερίληπτοι καὶ ἄπειροι, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἄνθρωπον ἕνα μόνον νοοῦμεν, ᾧ οὐδεὶσ ἔτυχεν ὅμοιοσ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, chapter 3 26:2)
  • 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)

Derived

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

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