Ἤπειρος

Where it lives

• Hellenica 2 · 0.3/10k
• Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Ἠπείρου · Ēpeirou Epictetus, Discourses 3.4 (DIORISIS sentence 3982)
• Ἠπείρῳ · Ēpeirōi Xenophon, Hellenica 6.1.7 (DIORISIS sentence 2487)
• Ἠπείρου · Ēpeirou Xenophon, Hellenica 6.2.9 (DIORISIS sentence 2567)

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Ἤπειρος (scan pp. 569-570; entry #2483). Root candidates: *apero-.
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Ἤπειρος (scan p. 429; entry #3030).
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Ἤπειρος (scan p. 672; entry #2355). Root candidates: *ipero-.

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