περπερ-εύομαι,
boast, brag, [1Co 13:4], M.Ant. 5.5 .
περπερεύομαι perpereuomai 1x
to vaunt one’s self, [1Co 13:4]
G4068 — περπερεύομαι
(to be πέρπερος, i. e. vain-glorious, braggart, Polybius 32, 6, 5; 40, 6, 2; Epictetus diss. 3, 2, 14); to boast oneself (A. V. vaunt oneself): [1Co 13:4] (Antoninus 5, 5; the compound ἐμπερπερεύεσθαι is used of adulation, employing rhetorical embellishments in extolling another excessively, in Cicero, ad Attic. 1, 14. Hesychius περπερεύεται. κατεπαίρεται); Cf. Osiander (or Wetstein) on 1 Corinthians, the passage cited (Gataker on Marc. Antoninus 5, 5, p. 143).
*† περτερεύοραι
( < περπερος , vainglorious),
to boast or vaunt oneself: [1Co 13:4] (elsewhere. only in Antonin .; v. Abbott, Essays , 87). †