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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *pérwr̥ (“ford, crossing”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pêː.rar/ → /ˈpi.rar/ → /ˈpi.rar/
Noun
πεῖραρ • (peîrar) n (genitive πείρατος); third declension (poetic)
- cord, rope
- (in the plural) ends, limits
Declension
- ἀπέραντος (apérantos, “endless, unending, boundless, infinite; allowing no escape”)
- περαίνω (peraínō, “to limit; to come to an end, finish, accomplish; to draw a conclusion, to infer”)
Further reading
- “πεῖραρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- πεῖραρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- πεῖραρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “πεῖραρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press