ἠπείρου (epeirou)

ἠπείρου is an Ancient Greek form of ἤπειρος, meaning “mainland, continent, land”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 218 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.981: ἠπείρου χθαμαλῆς, εἱλίσσεται· ἡ μὲν ἄπωθεν,

Plutarch, Pyrrhus 6.1: … Πτολεμαίου παιδίον μὲν αὐτῷ γενόμενον ἐξ Ἀντιγόνης Πτολεμαῖον ὠνόμασεν, οἰκίσας δὲ πόλιν ἐν τῇ χερρονήσῳ τῆς Ἠπείρου Βερονικίδα προσηγόρευσεν. ἐκ δὲ τούτου πολλὰ μὲν περινοῶν καὶ μεγάλα τῇ γνώμῃ, ταῖς δὲ ἐλπίσι μάλιστα καὶ πρῶ …

All forms of ἤπειρος (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.