ἄσπετος

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Ancient Greek

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *n̥-skʷ-e-tos, from *n̥- (un-) (ἀ- (a-)) + *sekʷ- (to say).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ἄσπετος (áspetosm or f (neuter ἄσπετον); second declension (Epic)

  1. inexpressible
  2. (especially) inexpressibly great, vast
  3. indescribable (of a sound or sight)
  4. (of the charging of the Titans, a noise) unspeakable, terrible
  5. 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)
  6. (of a breeze) exceptionally strong
  7. impossible to tell of (w. respect to quantity); (of animals, riches, gifts, cares) countless (of an army) immense (of smoke, rainfall, hail, sweat, gore)
  8. abundant (of meat, money, a harvest, foliage, liquid)
  9. (of panting) heavy
  10. impossible to tell of (w. respect to duration);(of a person's voice) endless (of a period of time)

Declension

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Further reading

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  • 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.