COMPOUND: ἄφθιτος, -ον
CATEGORIZATION: A [α+V+Suf]
MEANING: ‘not liable to perish, imperishable’
ETYMOLOGY: ἀ- privativum + verbal root φθι- (φθίω, φθίνω) ‘decay, perish’ + adj. suf. -τος, -τον
OCCURRENCE: Il. II, 46, 186; V, 724; IX, 413; XIII, 22; XIV, 238; XVIII, 370; XXIV, 88; Od. IX, 133
CASE/GENDER/NUMBER: nom. f. (target gender) sg., acc. m. sg., acc. n. sg., nom. f. (target gender) pl., nom. n. pl., acc. n. pl.
HEADEDNESS: exocentric
CLASSIFICATION: determinative – karmadhāraya
NOTES: ἀ- privativum is not a free word in Greek