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ὑπερβατός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερβατός ὑπερβατή ὑπερβατόν

Structure: ὑπερβατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: u(perbai/nw의 분사형

Sense

  1. to bepassed or crossed, scaleable
  2. transposed
  3. going beyond, going far beyond

Examples

  • ἐν τούτοισ ὑπερβατόν τε καὶ περίφρασισ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 31 2:5)
  • τὸ δὲ ἴσχυον δι’ ὑπερβατοῦ κείμενον τῷ αὐτίκα ἕπεται, βούλεται γὰρ δηλοῦν ἐν τῷ παραυτίκα ἴσχυον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 31 2:8)
  • οὕτω γὰρ δοκεῖ καὶ Ῥωμύλοσ ἀποκτεῖναι τὸν ἀδελφὸν ὡσ ἄβατον καὶ ἱερὸν τόπον ἐπιχειροῦντα διαπηδᾶν καὶ ποιεῖν ὑπερβατὸν καὶ βέβηλον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 27 1:2)
  • οὕτω γὰρ δοκεῖ καὶ Ῥωμύλοσ ἀποκτεῖναι τὸν ἀδελφὸν ὡσ ἄβατον καὶ ἱερὸν τόπον ἐπιχειροῦντα διαπηδᾶν καὶ ποιεῖν ὑπερβατὸν καὶ βέβηλον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 27 1:1)
  • " τὰ μὲν κατ’ οἴκουσ ἐφ’ ἑστίασ ἄχη τάδ’ ἐστὶ καὶ τῶνδ’ ὑπερβατώτερα. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 2 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. transposed

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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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