ἄσπετος

in α

COMPOUND: ἄσπετος, -ον
CATEGORIZATION: A [α+V+Suf]
MEANING: ‘unspeakable, unutterable’
ETYMOLOGY: ἀ- privativum + verbal stem σ(ε)πε- (*sekw-) ‘speak, say’ + adj. suf. –τος, -ον
OCCURRENCE: Il. II, 455; III, 373; VIII, 558; X, 523; XI, 245, 704; XIII, 139; XVI, 157, 300; XVII, 332; XVIII, 218; XIX, 61; XXIII, 127; XXIV, 738, 784; Od. IV, 75; V, 101; IX, 162; X, 184, 468, 477; XII, 30; XIII, 135, 395, 424; XIV, 96, 297, 412; XX, 342; XXII, 269, 407
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: nom. m. sg., nom. f. (target gender) sg., dat. m. sg., acc. m. sg., acc. f. (target gender) sg., acc. n. sg., nom. n. pl., acc. n. pl.
HEADEDNESS: exocentric
CLASSIFICATION: determinative – karmadhāraya
NOTES: ἀ- privativum is not a free word in Greek