Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ápiros/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ápiros/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ápiɾos/

Adjective

ἄπειρος • ‎(ápeiros) m, f ‎(neuter ἄπειρον); second declension

1. without trial or experience, not used to, ignorant of, unacquainted with
   • Theognis of Megara, Elegies 1007
   • Pindar, Isthmian Ode 8.154
   • Herodotus, Histories 5.92.1
   • Herodotus, Histories 8.1
   • Herodotus, Histories 9.58
   • Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 371
   • Aeschylus, Fragments 281
   • Sophocles, Antigone 1250
   • Antiphon of Rhamnus, Collected Works 111.34
   • Thucydides, 1 141
   • Plato, Apology 26.D
   • Herodotus, 2 111
   • Euripides, Medea 672
   1. (absolute) inexperienced, ignorant
      • Pindar, Isthmian Ode 8.106

Inflection

Synonyms

• ἀπείρητος ‎(apeírētos)

Etymology 2

From ἀ- ‎(a-, “not”) + πεῖραρ ‎(peîrar), πέρας ‎(péras, “end, limit”)

Alternative forms

• ἀπείρων ‎(apeírōn)
• ἀπειρέσιος ‎(apeirésios)

Adjective

ἄπειρος • ‎(ápeiros) m, f ‎(neuter ἄπειρον); second declension

1. boundless, infinite
   • Pindar, Fragments 95.8
   • Pindar, Fragments 935
   • Plato, Parmenides 144.A
   • Plato, The Republic 525.A
   • Plato, Laws 910.B
   • Aristotle, Physics 3.4.9
   1. (in Tragedy, often of garments) in which one is entangled past escape, endless, without outlet
      • Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1382
      • Sophocles, Fragments 473
      • Euripides, Orestes 25
   2. endless, circular
      • Aristotle, Physics 3.6.10

Inflection

Descendants

• English: apeiro-

Etymology 3

See ἤπειρος ‎(ḗpeiros).

Noun

ἄπειρος • ‎(ápeiros) m ‎(genitive ἀπείρου); second declension

1. Doric spelling of ἤπειρος ‎(ḗpeiros)

References

• ἄπειρος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄπειρος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἄπειρος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄπειρος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἄπειρος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G552”, 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.
  • beginner idem, page 71.
  • blind idem, page 83.
  • boundless idem, page 91.
  • clumsy idem, page 140.
  • endless idem, page 273.
  • ignorant idem, page 414.
  • illimitable idem, page 415.
  • immeasurable idem, page 417.
  • incalculable idem, page 427.
  • inexperienced idem, page 436.
  • inextricable idem, page 436.
  • infinite idem, page 438.
  • interminable idem, page 451.
  • limitless idem, page 492.
  • measureless idem, page 521.
  • new idem, page 556.
  • novice idem, page 561.
  • raw idem, page 674.
  • recruit idem, page 682.
  • rude idem, page 724.
  • stranger idem, page 823.
  • tyro idem, page 905.
  • unaccustomed idem, page 906.
  • unacquainted idem, page 906.
  • unbounded idem, page 908.
  • unending idem, page 916.
  • unfamiliar idem, page 917.
  • unfathomable idem, page 918.
  • uninitiated idem, page 922.
  • unknowing idem, page 923.
  • unlimited idem, page 924.
  • unmeasured idem, page 925.
  • unpractised idem, page 927.
  • unskilful idem, page 932.
  • unskilled idem, page 932.
  • untrained idem, page 935.
  • untried idem, page 935.
  • untutored idem, page 935.
  • unused idem, page 935.
  • unversed in idem, page 936.
• LSJ 8th edition