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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

  • Κητὼ δ’ ὁπλότατον Φόρκυι φιλότητι μιγεῖσα γείνατο δεινὸν ὄφιν, ὃσ ἐρεμνῆσ κεύθεσι γαίησ πείρασιν ἐν μεγάλοισ παγχρύσεα μῆλα φυλάσσει. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 33:1)
  • Ἄτλασ δ’ οὐρανὸν εὐρὺν ἔχει κρατερῆσ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ πείρασιν ἐν γαίησ, πρόπαρ Εσπερίδων λιγυφώνων, ἑστηὼσ κεφαλῇ τε καὶ ἀκαμάτῃσι χέρεσσιν· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 48:6)
  • πολέοσ δ’ ἐπὶ πείρασιν Αἰγιαλοῖο ἀκτῇ ἐπὶ προβλῆτι ῥοαὶ Ἅλυοσ ποταμοῖο δεινὸν ἐρεύγονται· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 6:24)
  • ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὔπω αἴσιμον ἦν ἐπιβῆναι Ἀχαιίδοσ ἡρώεσσιν, ὄφρ’ ἔτι καὶ Λιβύησ ἐπὶ πείρασιν ὀτλήσειαν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 19:33)

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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