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ἄυπνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄυπνος ἄυπνη ἄυπνον

Structure: ἀυπν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. sleepless, wakeful, sleepless, never-resting
  2. sleepless
  3. that is no sleep, from which one easily awakes

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓υπνος ἄύπνη ά̓υπνον
Genitive ἀύπνου ἄύπνης ἀύπνου
Dative ἀύπνῳ ἄύπνῃ ἀύπνῳ
Accusative ά̓υπνον ἄύπνην ά̓υπνον
Vocative ά̓υπνε ἄύπνη ά̓υπνον
DualN/A/V ἀύπνω ἄύπνᾱ ἀύπνω
G/D ἀύπνοιν ἄύπναιν ἀύπνοιν
PluralNominative ά̓υπνοι ά̓́υπναι ά̓υπνα
Genitive ἀύπνων ἄυπνῶν ἀύπνων
Dative ἀύπνοις ἄύπναις ἀύπνοις
Accusative ἀύπνους ἄύπνᾱς ά̓υπνα
Vocative ά̓υπνοι ά̓́υπναι ά̓υπνα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓υπνος ἀύπνου ἀυπνότερος ἀυπνοτέρου ἀυπνότατος ἀυπνοτάτου
Adverb ἀύπνως ἀυπνότερον ἀυπνότατα

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

  • τροφαί τε ματρὸσ ἀύπνά τ’ ὀμμάτων τέλη, καὶ φίλιαι προσβολαὶ προσώπων; (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 15)

Synonyms

  1. sleepless

Related

Similar forms

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

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