πέρας

Perhaps akin to πείρω (peírō, “to pierce, to run through”) or περάω (peráō, “to drive right through”), see also πέρα (péra) and πέραν (péran), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to pierce”).

πέρας • (péras) n (genitive πέρᾰτος); third declension

1. (also geometry) end, goal, extremity
   • 350 BCE – 250 BCE, Euclid, Elements 1:

     γραμμῆς δὲ πέρατα σημεῖα.

     grammês dè pérata sēmeîa.

     And the extremities of a line points.

• Greek: πέρας (péras)

• “πέρας”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “πέρας”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• πέρας in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “πέρας”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G4009 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• πέρας in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • accomplishment idem, page 6.
  • bound idem, page 90.
  • bourn idem, page 91.
  • cessation idem, page 122.
  • completion idem, page 152.
  • conclusion idem, page 156.
  • culmination idem, page 188.
  • end idem, page 272.
  • finality idem, page 320.
  • finish idem, page 321.
  • fulfilment idem, page 348.
  • goal idem, page 365.
  • limit idem, page 492.
  • measure idem, page 520.
  • period idem, page 607.

From the Ancient Greek πέρας (péras).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpe.ɾas/

πέρας • (péras) n (plural πέρατα)

1. end

   στα πέρατα της γης/του κόσμου (to the ends of the earth/the world)

   στα πέρατα και βροχή του Μάρτη (until the end of the March rains)