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ἀτοπώτατον (atopotaton)

ἀτοπώτατον is an Ancient Greek form of ἄτοπος, meaning “out of place, strange, absurd”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 29 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 8.2: θορυβουμένῳ δʼ ὑπʼ αὐτῶν τῷ Καμίλλῳ καὶ προφάσεως ἀποροῦντι βελτίονος εἰς τὸν ἀτοπώτατον τῶν λόγων συνέβαινε καταφεύγειν, ὁμολογοῦντι ἐπιλαθέσθαι τῆς εὐχῆς, οἱ δʼ ἐχαλέπαινον, εἰ τὰ τῶν πολεμίων δεκ …

Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos 30: … μὲν ἄτοπον καὶ παρὰ τὴν ἔννοιὰν ἐστιν εἶναι μέν τι μὴ ὂν δʼ εἶναι, καὶ εἶναι μὲν οὐκ ὄντα δʼ εἶναι, λεγόντων ἀτοπώτατόν ἐστι τὸ ἐπὶ τοῦ παντὸς λεγόμενον. κενὸν γὰρ ἄπειρον ἔξωθεν τῷ κόσμῳ περιθέντες οὔτε σῶμα τὸ πᾶν οὔτʼ ἀσώματον …

All forms of ἄτοπος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.