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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

  • ὑπερβατῶσ γὰρ δεῖ δέξασθαι ἴσον τῷ "καὶ ἔνθ’ Ἀλεισίου κολώνη κέκληται. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 20:11)
  • καὶ σὺν τῷ <δ> δὲ ὑπερβατῶσ δέχονταί τινεσ κατὰ συναλιφὴν μετὰ τοῦ συνδέσμου τοῦ δέ, ἵν’ ᾖ οὕτωσ "καί κεν ἐλέγχιστοσ πολὺ δ’ ἴψιον Ἄργοσ ἱκοίμην," . (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 6 14:9)
  • ὁ δὲ Σκήψιοσ πληθυντικῶσ ὠνομάσθαι τὴν νῆσον Καλύμνασ φησίν, ὡσ Ἀθήνασ καὶ Θήβασ, δεῖν δὲ ὑπερβατῶσ δέξασθαι τὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 5 26:4)

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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