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πεῖραρ

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεῖραρ πεῖρατος

Structure: πειραρ (Stem)

Etym.: poetic for pe/ras

Sense

  1. an end, the ends, the ends or ties of ropes
  2. the end or issue, of the issues or chief points
  3. that which gives the finish, the finishers

Declension

Third 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

  • Εἴ κ’ εἰήσ ἔργων αἰσχρῶν ἀπαθὴσ καὶ ἀεργόσ, Κύρνε, μέγιστόν κεν πεῖραρ ἔχοισ ἀρετῆσ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389695)
  • "ὢ πόποι, ἦ μάλα δὴ μετεβούλευσαν θεοὶ ἄλλωσ ἀμφ’ Ὀδυσῆι ἐμεῖο μετ’ Αἰθιόπεσσιν ἐόντοσ, καὶ δὴ Φαιήκων γαίησ σχεδόν, ἔνθα οἱ αἶσα ἐκφυγέειν μέγα πεῖραρ ὀιζύοσ, ἥ μιν ἱκάνει. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 5 28:1)
  • τοὶ δ’ ἔριδοσ κρατερῆσ καὶ ὁμοιί̈ου πτολέμοιο πεῖραρ ἐπαλλάξαντεσ ἐπ’ ἀμφοτέροισι τάνυσσαν ἄρρηκτόν τ’ ἄλυτόν τε, τὸ πολλῶν γούνατ’ ἔλυσεν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 13 36:8)
  • ἄμφω δ’ ἱέσθην ἐπὶ ἴστορι πεῖραρ ἑλέσθαι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 18 47:8)

Synonyms

  1. the end or issue

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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