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ἀφανής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφανής ἀφανές

Structure: ἀφανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nomai

Sense

  1. unseen, invisible, viewless, blind
  2. to disappear, be missing, missing
  3. unseen, unnoticed, secret, without being noticed
  4. unknown, uncertain, obscure, uncertainty
  5. unnoticed, obscure
  6. personal, which can be made away with, (real)

Examples

  • σὺ δὲ ὑπ̓ αὐτοῦ μεμαστιγωμένοσ διάγγελλε πᾶσι τὸ μεγαλεῖον τοῦ Θεοῦ κράτοσ. ταῦτα δὲ εἰπόντεσ ἀφανεῖσ ἐγένοντο. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 3:34)
  • τὸ καθ’ ἑκάστην πρᾶξιν μὴ μόνον τὰ φανερὰ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ ὁρᾶν καὶ λέγειν, ἀλλ’ ἐξετάζειν καὶ τὰσ ἀφανεῖσ αἰτίασ τῶν πράξεων καὶ τῶν πραξάντων αὐτὰσ καὶ τὰ πάθη τῆσ ψυχῆσ, ἃ μὴ ῥᾴδια τοῖσ πολλοῖσ εἰδέναι, καὶ πάντα ἐκκαλύπτειν τὰ μυστήρια τῆσ τε δοκούσησ ἀρετῆσ καὶ τῆσ ἀγνοουμένησ κακίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 6 7:3)
  • προεισπέμπεται δὲ ὁ Ἀλέξανδροσ, κομῶν ἤδη καὶ πλοκάμουσ καθειμένοσ καὶ μεσόλευκον χιτῶνα πορφυροῦν ἐνδεδυκὼσ καὶ ἱμάτιον ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ λευκὸν ἀναβεβλημένοσ, ἁρ́πην ἔχων κατὰ τὸν Περσέα, ἀφ’ οὗ ἑαυτὸν ἐγενεαλόγει μητρόθεν καὶ οἱ ὄλεθροι ἐκεῖνοι Παφλαγόνεσ, εἰδότεσ αὐτοῦ ἄμφω τοὺσ γονέασ ἀφανεῖσ καὶ ταπεινούσ, ἐπίστευον τῷ χρησμῷ λέγοντι Περσείδησ γενεὴν Φοίβῳ φίλοσ οὗτοσ ὁρᾶται, δῖοσ Ἀλέξανδροσ, Ποδαλειρίου αἷμα λελογχώσ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 11:1)
  • εἰ δὲ μὴ θεὸσ ἔστρεψε τἄνω περιβαλὼν κάτω χθονόσ, ἀφανεῖσ ἂν ὄντεσ οὐκ ἂν ὑμνήθημεν ἂν μούσαισ ἀοιδὰσ δόντεσ ὑστέρων βροτῶν. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic2)
  • ὁπόσα γὰρ δὴ ὁρᾷσ, τὴν γῆν, τὰ ἐπὶ γῆσ, τὸν οὐρανόν, τὴν θάλατταν, ἁπάντων τούτων εἰκόνεσ ἀφανεῖσ ἑστᾶσιν ἔξω τῶν ὅλων. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 17:14)

Synonyms

  1. unseen

  2. unknown

  3. unnoticed

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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