ἀβαρής
See also: αβαρής
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἀ- (a-) + βάρος (báros, “weight”) + -ής (-ḗs, adjective suffix).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.ba.rɛ̌ːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /a.baˈre̝s/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /a.βaˈris/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /a.vaˈris/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /a.vaˈris/
Adjective
ἀβαρής • (abarḗs) m or f (neuter ἀβαρές); third declension
- without weight, weightless
- not burdensome
- Antonym: βαρύς (barús)
Declension
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | Masculine / Feminine | Neuter | ||||||||
| Nominative | ἀβαρής abarḗs |
ἀβαρές abarés |
ἀβαρεῖ abareî |
ἀβαρεῖ abareî |
ἀβαρεῖς abareîs |
ἀβαρῆ abarê | ||||||||
| Genitive | ἀβαροῦς abaroûs |
ἀβαροῦς abaroûs |
ἀβαροῖν abaroîn |
ἀβαροῖν abaroîn |
ἀβαρῶν abarôn |
ἀβαρῶν abarôn | ||||||||
| Dative | ἀβαρεῖ abareî |
ἀβαρεῖ abareî |
ἀβαροῖν abaroîn |
ἀβαροῖν abaroîn |
ἀβαρέσῐ / ἀβαρέσῐν abarésĭ(n) |
ἀβαρέσῐ / ἀβαρέσῐν abarésĭ(n) | ||||||||
| Accusative | ἀβαρῆ abarê |
ἀβαρές abarés |
ἀβαρεῖ abareî |
ἀβαρεῖ abareî |
ἀβαρεῖς abareîs |
ἀβαρῆ abarê | ||||||||
| Vocative | ἀβαρές abarés |
ἀβαρές abarés |
ἀβαρεῖ abareî |
ἀβαρεῖ abareî |
ἀβαρεῖς abareîs |
ἀβαρῆ abarê | ||||||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | |||||||||||
| ἀβαρῶς abarôs |
ἀβαρέστερος abarésteros |
ἀβαρέστᾰτος abaréstătos | ||||||||||||
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Descendants
- Greek: αβαρής (avarís)
Further reading
- “ἀβαρής”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀβαρής”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀβαρής in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀβαρής in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- G4 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- ἀβαρής 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