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ὕπαιθρον (hypaithron)

ὕπαιθρον is an Ancient Greek form of ὑπαίθριος, meaning “in the open air”.

It can also be a form of ὕπαιθρος, “in the open air”. It is the nominative singular neuter noun or adjective.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.7.185: … άμενος δὲ τοὺς τῆς ἀδελφῆς υἱεῖς, Ἀριστοκρέοντα καὶ Φιλοκράτην, συνεκρότησε. καὶ πρῶτος ἐθάρρησε σχολὴν ἔχειν ὕπαιθρον ἐν Λυκείῳ, καθάπερ καὶ ὁ προειρημένος Δημήτριος ἱστορεῖ.

Zonaras, Epitome historiarum (Vol. 1) 3.6·2: … ὁ ἄνθρωπος γένηται· καὶ ἐκ τοῦ τοιούτου κράματος τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν ποδῶν καὶ τῶν χειρῶν καταχέουσιν, ὕπαιθρόν τε θέντες αὐτὸν εἱληθερεῖσθαι τῷ ἡλίῳ ποιοῦσι, καὶ οὕτως ἑκάστης ἡμέρας πράττουσιν ἐπ’ αὐτῷ. μυῖαι μὲν οὖν κα …

All forms of ὑπαίθριος (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.