ἄσπετος
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *n̥-skʷ-e-tos, from *n̥- (“un-”) (ἀ- (a-)) + *sekʷ- (“to say”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ás.pe.tos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈas.pe.tos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈas.pe.tos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈas.pe.tos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈas.pe.tos/
Adjective
ἄσπετος • (áspetos) m or f (neuter ἄσπετον); second declension (Epic)
- inexpressible
- (especially) inexpressibly great, vast
- indescribable (of a sound or sight)
- (of the charging of the Titans, a noise) unspeakable, terrible
- impossible to tell of (w. respect to magnitude); (of the aither, a body of water, forest, the ground) unspeakably great, immeasurable (of a wooden stake, pig's belly, of a journey, of a tumult)
- (of a breeze) exceptionally strong
- impossible to tell of (w. respect to quantity); (of animals, riches, gifts, cares) countless (of an army) immense (of smoke, rainfall, hail, sweat, gore)
- abundant (of meat, money, a harvest, foliage, liquid)
- (of panting) heavy
- impossible to tell of (w. respect to duration);(of a person's voice) endless (of a period of time)
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | ἄσπετος áspetos |
ἄσπετον áspeton |
ἀσπέτω aspétō |
ἀσπέτω aspétō |
ἄσπετοι áspetoi |
ἄσπετᾰ áspetă | ||||||||
| Genitive | ἀσπέτου / ἀσπέτοιο / ἀσπέτοο aspétou / aspétoio / aspétoo |
ἀσπέτου / ἀσπέτοιο / ἀσπέτοο aspétou / aspétoio / aspétoo |
ἀσπέτοιν / ἀσπέτοιῐν aspétoi(ĭ)n |
ἀσπέτοιν / ἀσπέτοιῐν aspétoi(ĭ)n |
ἀσπέτων aspétōn |
ἀσπέτων aspétōn | ||||||||
| Dative | ἀσπέτῳ aspétōi |
ἀσπέτῳ aspétōi |
ἀσπέτοιν / ἀσπέτοιῐν aspétoi(ĭ)n |
ἀσπέτοιν / ἀσπέτοιῐν aspétoi(ĭ)n |
ἀσπέτοις / ἀσπέτοισῐ / ἀσπέτοισῐν aspétois / aspétoisĭ(n) |
ἀσπέτοις / ἀσπέτοισῐ / ἀσπέτοισῐν aspétois / aspétoisĭ(n) | ||||||||
| Accusative | ἄσπετον áspeton |
ἄσπετον áspeton |
ἀσπέτω aspétō |
ἀσπέτω aspétō |
ἀσπέτους aspétous |
ἄσπετᾰ áspetă | ||||||||
| Vocative | ἄσπετε áspete |
ἄσπετον áspeton |
ἀσπέτω aspétō |
ἀσπέτω aspétō |
ἄσπετοι áspetoi |
ἄσπετᾰ áspetă | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ἀσπέτως aspétōs |
ἀσπετώτερος aspetṓteros |
ἀσπετώτᾰτος aspetṓtătos | ||||||||||||
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Further reading
- “ἄσπετος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄσπετος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924), A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “ἄσπετος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- vast idem, page 945.