ἄτοπον (atopon)

ἄτοπον is an Ancient Greek form of ἄτοπος, meaning “out of place, strange, absurd”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective.

Found 453 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.49.2: τοὺς δὲ ἄλλους ἀπ’ οὐδεμιᾶς προφάσεως, ἀλλ’ ἐξαίφνης ὑγιεῖς ὄντας πρῶτον μὲν τῆς κεφαλῆς θέρμαι ἰσχυραὶ καὶ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ἐρυθήματα καὶ φλόγωσις ἐλάμβανε, καὶ τὰ ἐντός, ἥ τε φάρυγξ καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα, εὐθὺς αἱματώδη ἦν καὶ πνεῦμα ἄτοπον καὶ δυσῶδες ἠφίει·

Plutarch, Alcibiades 19.4: … ντας ἐχθροὺς τοῦ Ἀλκιβιάδου, μισοῦντας δὲ αὐτὸν οὐχ ἧττον τῶν ὁμολογούντων, ἀνισταμένους ἐν τῷ δήμῳ λέγειν ὡς ἄτοπόν ἐστιν αὐτοκράτορι στρατηγῷ τηλικαύτης ἀποδεδειγμένῳ δυνάμεως, ἠθροισμένης στρατιᾶς καὶ τῶν συμμάχων, μεταξὺ κ …

Plutarch, Amatorius 21: … οι τὴν γʼ ὥραν ἄνθος ἀρετῆς εἶναι λέγουσι, μὴ φάναι δʼ ἀνθεῖν τὸ θῆλυ μηδὲ ποιεῖν ἔμφασιν εὐφυΐας πρὸς ἀρετὴν ἄτοπὸν ἐστι· καὶ γὰρ Αἰσχύλος ὀρθῶς ἐποίησε νέας γυναικὸς οὔ με μὴ λάθῃ φλέγων ὀφθαλμός, ἣτις ἀνδρὸς γεγευμένη.

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.