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ἠπειρωτικός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἠπειρωτικός ἠπειρωτική ἠπειρωτικόν

Structure: ἠπειρωτικ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from h)peirw/ths

Sense

  1. continental
  2. of Epirus

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

  • ὡσ ἱστορεῖ Κριτόλασ ἐν τρίτῃ Ἠπειρωτικῶν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 6 1:5)
  • καιρόν, καθ’ ὃν ἐνικήθη Πύρροσ ὡσ ἱστορεῖ Κριτόλασ ἐν τρίτῃ Ἠπειρωτικῶν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 6 4:1)
  • πολλὰ δ’ ἔστι τῶν ἐθνῶν ἃ πρὸσ τὸ κτείνειν καὶ πρὸσ τὴν ἀνθρωποφαγίαν εὐχερῶσ ἔχει, καθάπερ τῶν περὶ τὸν Πόντον Ἀχαιοί τε καὶ Ἡνίοχοι καὶ τῶν ἠπειρωτικῶν ἐθνῶν ἕτερα, τὰ μὲν ὁμοίωσ τούτοισ τὰ δὲ μᾶλλον, ἃ λῃστρικὰ μέν ἐστιν, ἀνδρείασ δ’ οὐ μετειλήφασιν. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 8 38:3)
  • ὑπὲρ τούτων δ’ ἤδη οἱ Θετταλοὶ καὶ τῶν Αἰτωλῶν οἱ προσάρκτιοι καὶ Ἀκαρνᾶνεσ καί τινα τῶν Ἠπειρωτικῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ τῶν Μακεδονικῶν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 3 2:11)
  • ἑκατέρωθεν δ’ ἀπὸ μὲν Πηλίου καὶ Πηνειοῦ πρὸσ τὴν μεσόγαιαν Μακεδόνεσ παράκεινται μέχρι Παιονίασ καὶ τῶν Ἠπειρωτικῶν ἐθνῶν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν τὰ παράλληλα τοῖσ Μακεδόσιν ὄρη τὰ Οἰταῖα καὶ Αἰτωλικά, τοῖσ Δωριεῦσι καὶ τῷ Παρνασσῷ συνάπτοντα. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 5 2:4)

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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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