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πέρατος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πέρατος πέρατη πέρατον

Structure: περατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/ra

Sense

  1. on the opposite side, an opposite land or quarter

Examples

  • αὐτὸσ μὲν οὖν ὁ Πύρροσ ἐβιάζετο κατὰ στόμα τοῖσ ὁπλίταισ πρὸσ ἀσπίδασ πολλὰσ τῶν Σπαρτιατῶν ἀντιπαρατεταγμένασ, καὶ τάφρον οὐ περατὴν οὐδὲ βάσιν ἀσφαλῆ τοῖσ μαχομένοισ παρέχουσαν ὑπὸ χαυνότητοσ. (Plutarch, chapter 28 1:1)

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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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