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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

  • "νῦν οὖν ἀκίνδυνόσ εἰμι τὰ μέγιστα καὶ θαρρῶ, καὶ νομίζω τὴν Τύχην ὑμῖν παραμενεῖν ἀβλαβῆ καὶ βέβαιον, ἱκανῶσ γὰρ ἐμοὶ καὶ τοῖσ ἐμοῖσ κακοῖσ εἰσ τὴν τῶν κατωρθωμένων ἀποκέχρηται νέμεσιν, οὐκ ἀφανέστερον ἔχουσα παράδειγμα τῆσ ἀνθρωπίνησ ἀσθενείασ τοῦ θριαμβευομένου τὸν θριαμβεύοντα πλὴν ὅτι Περσεὺσ μὲν ἔχει καὶ νενικημένοσ τοὺσ παῖδασ, Αἰμίλιοσ δὲ τοὺσ αὑτοῦ νικήσασ ἀπέβαλεν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 36 3:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ οἱ ταύτῃ τιμῶσιν Ἀμαρυσίαν, ἑορτὴν δὲ καὶ Ἀθηναῖοι τῆσ Ἀμαρυσίασ ἄγουσιν οὐδέν τι Εὐβοέων ἀφανέστερον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 31 8:3)
  • γεγόνασι δὲ ἀπὸ μὲν Πηλέωσ οἱ ἐν Ἠπείρῳ βασιλεῖσ, Τελαμῶνοσ δὲ τῶν παίδων Αἰάντοσ μέν ἐστιν ἀφανέστερον γένοσ οἱᾶ ἰδιωτεύσαντοσ ἀνθρώπου, πλὴν ὅσον Μιλτιάδησ, ὃσ Ἀθηναίοισ ἐσ Μαραθῶνα ἡγήσατο, καὶ Κίμων ὁ Μιλτιάδου προῆλθον ἐσ δόξαν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 29 6:1)

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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