Etymology

apeiron

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Today it means: A kind of infinite primal chaos in the cosmological theory of Anaximander. Full definition →

Ancient Greek ἀπείρων
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  1. Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromἀπείρων
  2. English todayapeiron

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀπείρων (apeírōn).

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