Ancient Greek

Noun

πεῖρα • ‎(peîra) f ‎(genitive πεῖρας); first declension

1. trial, experiment, attempt

References

• πεῖρα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• πεῖρα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «πεῖρα» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• πεῖρα in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G3984”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • attempt idem, page 50.
  • effort idem, page 263.
  • endeavour idem, page 272.
  • enterprise idem, page 277.
  • essay idem, page 282.
  • experiment idem, page 294.
  • foretaste idem, page 337.
  • proof idem, page 653.
  • test idem, page 863.
  • trial idem, page 893.
  • trying idem, page 899.
  • undertaking idem, page 914.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 1162f