πεῖρα

From Proto-Hellenic *peřřa, from Proto-Indo-European *pér-ih₂ ~ *pr̥-yéh₂s, from *per- (“to try, risk”) +‎ *-ih₂.^[1] Cognate with Old Armenian փորձ (pʻorj, “attempt, try”), Latin perīculum (“trial, risk”), Proto-Germanic *fērō (“danger”).

πεῖρᾰ • (peîra) f (genitive πείρᾱς); first declension

1. trial, experiment, attempt

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

πεῖρα • (peîra)

1. (Epic) first-person singular aorist present active unaugmented of πείρω (peírō)

• “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• 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.
• “πεῖρα”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011