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ἄπτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄπτερος

Structure: ἀπτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ptero/n

Sense

  1. without wings, unwinged, without wings, wingless
  2. unfeathered
  3. unfledged, callow, unfledged, unconfirmed

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓πτερος ά̓πτερα ά̓πτερον
Genitive ἀπτέρου ἀπτέρᾱς ἀπτέρου
Dative ἀπτέρῳ ἀπτέρᾱͅ ἀπτέρῳ
Accusative ά̓πτερον ά̓πτεραν ά̓πτερον
Vocative ά̓πτερε ά̓πτερα ά̓πτερον
DualN/A/V ἀπτέρω ἀπτέρᾱ ἀπτέρω
G/D ἀπτέροιν ἀπτέραιν ἀπτέροιν
PluralNominative ά̓πτεροι ά̓πτεραι ά̓πτερα
Genitive ἀπτέρων ἀπτερῶν ἀπτέρων
Dative ἀπτέροις ἀπτέραις ἀπτέροις
Accusative ἀπτέρους ἀπτέρᾱς ά̓πτερα
Vocative ά̓πτεροι ά̓πτεραι ά̓πτερα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓πτερος ἀπτέρου ἀπτερώτερος ἀπτερωτέρου ἀπτερώτατος ἀπτερωτάτου
Adverb ἀπτέρως ἀπτερώτερον ἀπτερώτατα

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

  • τῶν δὲ προπυλαίων ἐν δεξιᾷ Νίκησ ἐστὶν Ἀπτέρου ναόσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 7:5)
  • ἕστηκε δὲ παρὰ τῆσ Ἀπτέρου Νίκησ τὸν ναόν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 30 3:4)
  • Κάλαμισ δὲ οὐκ ἔχουσαν πτερὰ ποιῆσαι λέγεται ἀπομιμούμενοσ τὸ Ἀθήνῃσι τῆσ Ἀπτέρου καλουμένησ ξόανον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 11:5)

Synonyms

  1. unfledged

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

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