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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

  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ πλησίον ἤδη ἐσμέν, ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ, εἰ δοκεῖ, καταστάντεσ βαδίζωμεν, ἵνα μὴ διαταράξωμεν αὐτὸν ἄνωθεν ἐξ ἀφανοῦσ καθιπτάμενοι εὖ λέγεισ, καὶ οὕτω ποιῶμεν. (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 5:12)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀπαρρησίαστοσ καὶ δειλὸσ ἅπασ ὁ τοιοῦτοσ ἄνθρωποσ οὐδὲν ἐσ τοὐμφανὲσ ἄγων, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ οἱ λοχῶντεσ ἐξ ἀφανοῦσ ποθεν τοξεύων, ὡσ μηδὲ ἀντιτάξασθαι δυνατὸν εἶναι μηδὲ ἀνταγωνίσασθαι, ἀλλ’ ἐν ἀπορίᾳ καὶ ἀγνοίᾳ τοῦ πολέμου διαφθείρεσθαι, ὃ μέγιστόν ἐστι σημεῖον τοῦ μηδὲν ὑγιὲσ τοὺσ διαβάλλοντασ λέγειν. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 9:1)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ὄφελοσ ἀπορρήτου, φασί, καὶ ἀφανοῦσ τῆσ μουσικῆσ. (Lucian, Harmonides 3:4)
  • ἠσκημένη, ὁπόθεν ἂν μάλιστα ἐκ τοῦ ἀφανοῦσ ἐξελαύνειν δόξειαν καὶ μὴ ἁπλῆν ἀλλ̓ ὡσ ἔνι ποικίλην τὴν ἐκδρομὴν ποιεῖσθαι. (Arrian, chapter 35 2:1)
  • μεταξὺ δὲ δὴ τοῦ τε δεξιοῦ κέρωσ τῆσ τάξεωσ καὶ τῆσ προβολῆσ τοῖν δυοῖν ἱππέοιν ἐκ τοῦ ἀφανοῦσ ἱππῆσ ἐκθέουσι, προϊππεύοντεσ μὲν τῆσ οἰκείασ τάξεωσ, ἀκοντίζοντεσ δὲ ἐσ τοὺσ παριππεύοντασ. (Arrian, chapter 37 2:1)

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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