Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ápistos/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ápistos/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ápistos/

Adjective

ἄπιστος • ‎(ápistos) m, f ‎(neuter ἄπιστον); second declension

1. not to be trusted
   1. (of persons and their acts) untrustworthy, faithless, groundless
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.106
      • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 601
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1298
      • 6th century BC, Theognis of Megara, Elegies 226
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.22
      • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Anabasis 2.4.7
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 683
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.120
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 775.D
   2. (of reports and the like) incredible
      • 680 BCE – 645 BCE, Archilochus, Collected Works 74.5
      • 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Olympian Ode 1.31
      • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 3.80
      • 525 BCE – 455 BCE, Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 832
      • 414 BCE, Aristophanes, The Birds 418
      • 280 BCE – 220 BCE, Philo of Byzantium, Compendium of Mechanics 2.556
      • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 868
      • 389 BCE – 314 BCE, Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon 59
      • 440 BCE – 390 BCE, Andocides, On the Mysteries 67
      • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Epistles 314.B
2. not believing or trusting, distrustful, mistrustful, incredulous, suspicious
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.150
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.8
   • 343 BCE, Demosthenes, On the False Embassy 27
   • 400 BCE – 387 BCE, Plato, Apology 26.E
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laws 705.A
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.66
   • 485 BCE – 380 BCE, Gorgias, Defense of Palamedes 11
   1. (in the New Testament) unbelieving, a non-believer
      • New Testament, First Epistle to the Corinthians 6.6
   2. not obeying, disobedient
      • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Fragments 627
      • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 876
      • 467 BCE, Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 1035
      • 413 BCE, Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris 1476
3. (adverb)
   1. beyond belief
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 1.21
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric to Alexander 1438.A.22
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Aristotle, Rhetoric to Alexander 1438.B.2
   2. distrustfully, suspiciously
      • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.83
      • 384 BCE – 322 BCE, Demosthenes, Against Leptines 22

Inflection

References

• ἄπιστος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄπιστος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄπιστος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἄπιστος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄπιστος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἄπιστος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἄπιστος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G571”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • capricious idem, page 112.
  • changeable idem, page 124.
  • disloyal idem, page 235.
  • distrustful idem, page 242.
  • faithless idem, page 303.
  • false idem, page 304.
  • fickle idem, page 317.
  • inconstant idem, page 430.
  • incredible idem, page 430.
  • incredulous idem, page 430.
  • insincere idem, page 445.
  • mistrustful idem, page 536.
  • mutable idem, page 548.
  • perfidious idem, page 605.
  • questionable idem, page 665.
  • sceptical idem, page 738.
  • shifty idem, page 766.
  • traitorous idem, page 887.
  • treacherous idem, page 891.
  • unbelieving idem, page 908.
  • uncertain idem, page 909.
  • unconvinced idem, page 911.
  • uncredited idem, page 911.
  • unfaithful idem, page 917.
  • unstable idem, page 933.
  • untrustworthy idem, page 935.
  • variable idem, page 944.
  • wilful idem, page 979.