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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-) + πτερόν (pterón) + -ος (-os).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /áp.te.ros/ → /ˈap.te.ros/ → /ˈap.te.ros/
Adjective
ἄπτερος • (ápteros) m or f (neuter ἄπτερον); second declension
- wingless, unwinged
- featherless, unfeathered
- unfledged, callow (of young birds)
- (figurative) unconfirmed (of a report or claim)
- (Byzantine) fast, quick
- (Byzantine, nominalized, neuter) bat (mammal)
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Further reading
- “ἄπτερος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- ἄπτερος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἄπτερος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- ἄπτερος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- ἄπτερος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- “ἄπτερος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “ἄπτερος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.