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ἀφανής?

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: aphanēs

Principal Part: ἀφανής ἀφανές

Structure: ἀφανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: φαίνομαι

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)

Declension

Third declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἀφανής ἄφανες
Genitive ἀφανούς ἀφάνους
Dative ἀφανεί ἀφάνει
Accusative ἀφανή ἄφανες
Vocative ἀφανές ἄφανες
DualN/A/V ἀφανεί ἀφάνει
G/D ἀφανοίν ἀφάνοιν
PluralNominative ἀφανείς ἀφάνη
Genitive ἀφανών ἀφάνων
Dative ἀφανέσι(ν) ἀφάνεσι(ν)
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

  • εἶτ᾿ ἀνεμνήσθη αὐτοῦ ἡ ἁμαρτία, ὥσπερ δὲ ὁμίχλη δρόσου ἀφανὴς ἐγένετο. ἀποδοθείη δὲ αὐτῷ ἃ ἔπραξε, συντριβείη δὲ πᾶς ἄδικος ἴσα ξύλῳ ἀνιάτῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 24:20)
  • σοφία κεκρυμμένη καὶ θησαυρὸς ἀφανής, τίς ὠφέλεια ἐν ἀμφοτέροις; (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 20:29)
  • παιδείαν ἐν εἰρήνῃ συντηρήσατε, τέκνα. σοφία δὲ κεκρυμμένη καὶ θησαυρὸς ἀφανής, τίς ὠφέλεια ἐν ἀμφοτέροις; (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 41:14)
  • τὴν δὲ τῶν ἐναντίων τιμωρίαν ποθεινοτέραν αὐτῶν λαβόντες καὶ κινδύνων ἅμα τόνδε κάλλιστον νομίσαντες ἐβουλήθησαν τοὺς μὲν τιμωρεῖσθαι τῶν δ ἐφίεσθαι, ἐλπίδι μὲν τὸ ἀφανὲς τοῦ κατορθώσειν ἐπιτρέψαντες, ἔργῳ δὲ περὶ τοῦ ἤδη ὁρωμένου σφίσιν αὐτοῖς ἀξιοῦντες πεποιθέναι: (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 163)
  • ἀφανὴς γὰρ ἦν. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, iris and poseidon, chapter 1 1:9)
  • ταύτην δὲ ἐοῦσαν Ἀγήνορος τοῦ βασιλέως θυγατέρα, ἐπειδὴ τε ἀφανὴς ἐγεγόνεεν οἱ Φοίνικες τῷ νηῷ ἐτιμήσαντο καὶ λόγον ἱρὸν ἐπ αὐτῇ ἔλεξαν, ὅτι ἐοῦσαν καλὴν Ζεὺς ἐπόθεεν καὶ τὸ εἶδος εἰς ταῦρον ἀμειψάμενος ἡρ´πασεν καί μιν ἐς Κρήτην φέρων ἀπίκετο. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 4:4)

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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