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ἀφάνισις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφάνισις

Structure: ἀφανισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: From a)fani/zw

Sense

  1. a getting rid of
  2. disappearance

Declension

Third declension

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

  • ηὑρ́ηκ’ ἀφάνισιν τῆσ δίκησ σοφωτάτην, ὥστ’ αὐτὸν ὁμολογεῖν σ’ ἐμοί. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:35)
  • ἃ μὲν οὖν περὶ τὴν ἀφάνισιν τῶν συνθηκῶν καὶ περὶ τὴν γνῶσιν τῆσ διαίτησ Ἀπατουρίῳ καὶ τῷ διαιτητῇ πέπρακται, ἐάν ποτε σωθῇ ὁ ἠδικημένοσ, δίκην παρ’ αὐτῶν λήψεται· (Demosthenes, Speeches 31-40, 31:1)
  • τελεωτάτη πάντων λόγων ἐστὶν ἀφάνισισ τὸ διαλύειν ἕκαστον ἀπὸ πάντων· (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 262:2)
  • τήν τε ἀφάνισιν τούτων γίνεσθαι παρὰ τὰσ ἀντικειμένασ ταύταισ αἰτίασ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 111:3)
  • ταῦτα μὲν αἱ πόλιεσ αὗται λέγουσι, τάδε δὲ οἶδα Μεταποντίνοισι τοῖσι ἐν Ἰταλίῃ συγκυρήσαντα μετὰ τὴν ἀφάνισιν τὴν δευτέρην Ἀριστέω ἔτεσι τεσσεράκοντα καὶ διηκοσίοισι, ὡσ ἐγὼ συμβαλλόμενοσ ἐν Προκοννήσῳ τε καὶ Μεταποντίῳ εὑρ́ισκον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 15 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a getting rid of

  2. disappearance

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

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