ἄπαστος

Ancient Greek

From ᾰ̓- (ă-, “un-”) +‎ πατέομαι (patéomai, “to eat”) +‎ -τος (-tos, verbal adjective suffix).

ᾰ̓́πᾰστος • (ắpăstos) m or f (neuter ᾰ̓́πᾰστον); second declension

unfed, fasting
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 19.345–346:
  οἳ δὲ δὴ ἄλλοι / οἴχονται μετὰ δεῖπνον, ὃ δ’ ἄκμηνος καὶ ἄπαστος.
  hoì dè dḕ álloi / oíkhontai metà deîpnon, hò d’ ákmēnos kaì ápastos.
  The others / have now dispersed after dinner, but he is untended and unfed.

Second declension of ᾰ̓́πᾰστος; ᾰ̓́πᾰστον (Attic)

Number	Singular		Dual		Plural
Case/Gender	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter	Masculine / Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ᾰ̓́πᾰστος ắpăstos	ᾰ̓́πᾰστον ắpăston	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στω ăpắstō	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στω ăpắstō	ᾰ̓́πᾰστοι ắpăstoi	ᾰ̓́πᾰστᾰ ắpăstă
Genitive	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στου ăpắstou	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στου ăpắstou	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στοιν ăpắstoin	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στοιν ăpắstoin	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στων ăpắstōn	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στων ăpắstōn
Dative	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στῳ ăpắstōi	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στῳ ăpắstōi	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στοιν ăpắstoin	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στοιν ăpắstoin	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στοις ăpắstois	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στοις ăpắstois
Accusative	ᾰ̓́πᾰστον ắpăston	ᾰ̓́πᾰστον ắpăston	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στω ăpắstō	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στω ăpắstō	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στους ăpắstous	ᾰ̓́πᾰστᾰ ắpăstă
Vocative	ᾰ̓́πᾰστε ắpăste	ᾰ̓́πᾰστον ắpăston	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στω ăpắstō	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στω ăpắstō	ᾰ̓́πᾰστοι ắpăstoi	ᾰ̓́πᾰστᾰ ắpăstă
Derived forms	Adverb		Comparative		Superlative
Derived forms	ᾰ̓πᾰ́στως ăpắstōs		ᾰ̓πᾰστότερος ăpăstóteros		ᾰ̓πᾰστότᾰτος ăpăstótătos
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

“ἄπαστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“ἄπαστος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“ἄπαστος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
ἄπαστος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
ἄπαστος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
ἄπαστος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
ἄπαστος, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011