COMPOUND: διαμπερής, -ές
CATEGORIZATION: A [P+V+Suf]
MEANING: ‘piercing’, ‘as Adv. through and through, right through, throughout, for ever’
ETYMOLOGY: P δια- ‘through’ + verbal root αμπερ- ἀμπείρω (ep. for ἀναπείρω) ‘pierce through’ + adj. suf. -ής, -ές
OCCURRENCE: Il. V, 112, 284, 658; VII, 171; X, 89, 325, 331; XI, 377; XII, 398, 429; XIII 547; XV, 70; XVI, 499, 618, 640; XVII, 309; XVIII, 563; XIX, 272; XX, 362; XXII, 264; Od. IV, 209; V, 256, 480; VII, 96; VIII, 245; X, 88; XI, 558; XIII, 59; XIV, 11; XV, 196; XVII, 194; XIX, 442; XX, 47; XXII, 190, 422; XXIII, 151.
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: acc. n. sg. 
HEADEDNESS: exocentric
CLASSIFICATION: determinative – karmadhāraya
NOTES: in Hom. only as an Adv.; adjective διαμπερής scantily attested, the structure however is that of an adjectival compound