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ἀφανής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφανής ἀφανές

Structure: ἀφανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nomai

Sense

unseen, invisible, viewless, blind
to disappear, be missing, missing
unseen, unnoticed, secret, without being noticed
unknown, uncertain, obscure, uncertainty
unnoticed, obscure
personal, which can be made away with, (real)

Declension

Third declension

		M/F	Neuter
Singular	Nominative	ἀφανής	ά̓φανες
	Genitive	ἀφανούς	ἀφάνους
	Dative	ἀφανεί	ἀφάνει
	Accusative	ἀφανή	ά̓φανες
	Vocative	ἀφανές	ά̓φανες
Dual	N/A/V	ἀφανεί	ἀφάνει
Dual	G/D	ἀφανοίν	ἀφάνοιν
Plural	Nominative	ἀφανείς	ἀφάνη
	Genitive	ἀφανών	ἀφάνων
	Dative	ἀφανέσιν*	ἀφάνεσιν*
	Accusative	ἀφανείς	ἀφάνη
	Vocative	ἀφανείς	ἀφάνη

	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Adjective	ἀφανής ἀφανούς	ἀφανέστερος ἀφανεστέρου	ἀφανέστατος ἀφανεστάτου
Adverb	ἀφανέως	ἀφανέστερον	ἀφανέστατα

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

τό τε ἄμεινον ἢ χεῖρον ἐν τῷ ἀφανεῖ ἔτι προεώρα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 16 1:7)
καὶ μόνην ἐθαύμαζεν ‐ ἀπολιποῦσα τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ὁπόσοι ἐμνήστευόν με πλούσιοι καὶ καλοὶ καὶ λαμπροὶ τὰ προγονικά, τῷ ἀχαρίστῳ τούτῳ ἐμαυτὴν ἐνεγγύησα πένητι καὶ ἀφανεῖ καὶ νέῳ προῖκα οὐ μικρὰν ἐπενεγκαμένη πολλοὺσ καὶ θαυμασίουσ λόγουσ. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 27:3)
ὡσ ὅσαι γε ἀγαθαὶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ τὸν θυμόν γενναῖαι, ταύτασ δὲ οὐκ ἄν ποτε διαφύγοι λαγώσ, εἰ μή τισ δυσχωρία ἐμποδὼν γένοιτο, ἢ ὕλη ἀποκρύψασα, ἢ κατάδυσισ κοίλη καὶ βαθεῖα ἀφελομένη, ἢ τάφροσ διαδραμεῖν ἐν τῷ ἀφανεῖ παρασχοῦσα. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 2 3:2)
Εἰ δέ με δεῖ καὶ σοφοῦ ἀνδρὸσ μνησθῆναι, τὸ μὲν ὄνομα ἐν ἀφανεῖ κείσθω, τὴν γνώμην δὲ ἐρῶ καὶ τὰ πρῴην ἐν Κορίνθῳ συγγράμματα, κρείττω πάσησ ἐλπίδοσ· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 171)
τῷ δ’ ἀφανεῖ πᾶσ ἕπεται δόλοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 50 7:4)

Synonyms

unseen
- ἀδερκής (unseen, invisible)
- ἀόρατος (unseen, invisible)
- ἀθέατος (unseen, invisible)
- ἄσκοπος (unseen, invisible)
unknown
- μαυρός (unknown, uncertain, obscure)
- ἀμαυρός (unknown, uncertain, obscure)
- ἄδηλος (it is uncertain, unknown, uncertain)
- ἄσημος (of no mark, unknown, obscure)
unnoticed
- ἄφαντος (obscure)
- ἀλαμπής (obscure)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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ἀφανής

Sense

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unknown

unnoticed

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ἀφανής

Sense

Declension

Examples

Synonyms

unseen

unknown

unnoticed

Similar forms

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