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ἄυπνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄυπνος ἄυπνη ἄυπνον

Structure: ἀυπν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

sleepless, wakeful, sleepless, never-resting
sleepless
that is no sleep, from which one easily awakes

Declension

First/Second declension

		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ά̓υπνος	ἄύπνη	ά̓υπνον
	Genitive	ἀύπνου	ἄύπνης	ἀύπνου
	Dative	ἀύπνῳ	ἄύπνῃ	ἀύπνῳ
	Accusative	ά̓υπνον	ἄύπνην	ά̓υπνον
	Vocative	ά̓υπνε	ἄύπνη	ά̓υπνον
Dual	N/A/V	ἀύπνω	ἄύπνᾱ	ἀύπνω
Dual	G/D	ἀύπνοιν	ἄύπναιν	ἀύπνοιν
Plural	Nominative	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

πολλὰσ μὲν ἀύπνουσ νύκτασ ἰαυέν, ἤματα δ’ αἱματόεντα διέπρησσεν πολεμίζων πρὸσ ἀμάχουσ δυνάμεισ καὶ ἄπειρα φῦλα καὶ ποταμοὺσ ἀπεράτουσ καὶ πέτρασ ἀτοξεύτουσ, εὐβουλίᾳ καὶ καρτερίᾳ καὶ ἀνδρείᾳ καὶ σωφροσύνῃ παραπεμπόμενοσ. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 1 1:1)
"ἀύπνουσ νύκτασ ἰαῦσαι· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 16:1)
"τίπτε τόσον, Πολύφημ’, ἀρημένοσ ὧδ’ ἐβόησασ νύκτα δι’ ἀμβροσίην καὶ ἀύπνουσ ἄμμε τίθησθα; (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 39:1)
ἐπειδὰν δὲ πολλὰσ μὲν ἀΰπνουσ νύκτασ ἰαύσῃσ ἤματα δ’ αἱματόεντα διαγάγῃσ, οὐ μὰ Δία τῆσ Ἑλένησ ἕνεκα οὐδὲ τῶν Πριάμου Περγάμων; (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 11:5)
τίσ ἂν δῆτά μοι, τίσ ἂν φιλοπόνων ἁλιαδᾶν ἔχων ἀύ̈πνουσ ἄγρασ, ἢ τίσ Ὀλυμπιάδων θεᾶν ἢ ῥυτῶν Βοσπορίων ποταμῶν, τὸν ὠμόθυμον εἴ ποθι πλαζόμενον λεύσσων ἀπύοι; (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

sleepless
- ἀκοίμητος (sleepless)

ἀκοίμητος (sleepless)
λίκνον (a winnowing-fan)
ἄκραντος (unfulfilled)
Βάκχευμα (Bacchic revelries)
ἐρημαῖος (desolate)
ἀμολγός (in the hours before daybreak)
θοάζω (to move quickly)
πέσημα (a fall)
ἀμενηνός (powerless)
δινεύω (to whirl or twirl round)
κανθός (corner of the eye)
κάνθων (a pack-ass)
κυκεών (a potion consisting of barley-meal)
νηδύς (the stomach)
δύσερως (sick in love with)
δνοφερός (dark)
πάννυχος (lasting all the night)
σαίνω (to wag the tail)
ἀγήραος (not waxing old)
ποταίνιος (fresh)
γοργωπός (fierce-eyed)
λάτρις (a hired servant)
Στύγιος (Stygian)
ἔννυχος ()
ἄλκαρ (a safeguard)
ἐξέτι (even from)
γλαῦξ (owl)
ἀθέσφατος (beyond even a god's power to express)
ἀποτῆλε (far from)
δυσθέατος (ill to look on)

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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sleepless

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