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ἄφαντος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄφαντος ἄφαντη ἄφαντον

Structure: ἀφαντ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nomai

Sense

  1. made invisible, blotted out, forgotten, hidden, to disappear
  2. in secret
  3. obscure

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓φαντος ἄφάντη ά̓φαντον
Genitive ἀφάντου ἄφάντης ἀφάντου
Dative ἀφάντῳ ἄφάντῃ ἀφάντῳ
Accusative ά̓φαντον ἄφάντην ά̓φαντον
Vocative ά̓φαντε ἄφάντη ά̓φαντον
DualN/A/V ἀφάντω ἄφάντᾱ ἀφάντω
G/D ἀφάντοιν ἄφάνταιν ἀφάντοιν
PluralNominative ά̓φαντοι ά̓́φανται ά̓φαντα
Genitive ἀφάντων ἄφαντῶν ἀφάντων
Dative ἀφάντοις ἄφάνταις ἀφάντοις
Accusative ἀφάντους ἄφάντᾱς ά̓φαντα
Vocative ά̓φαντοι ά̓́φανται ά̓φαντα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓φαντος ἀφάντου ἀφαντότερος ἀφαντοτέρου ἀφαντότατος ἀφαντοτάτου
Adverb ἀφάντως ἀφαντότερον ἀφαντότατα

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

  • ἰὼ Φοῖβ’, ἀνύμνησασ δίκαι’ ἄφαντα, φανερὰ δ’ ἐξέπρα‐ ξασ ἄχεα, φόνια δ’ ὤπασασ λάχε’ ἀπὸ γᾶσ τᾶσ Ἑλλανίδοσ. (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ὅτε δὴ καὶ μία τῶν παρουσῶν γυναικῶν, ὄνομα μὲν Θαί̈σ, Ἀττικὴ δὲ τὸ γένοσ, εἶπεν κάλλιστον Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν πεπραγμένων ἔσεσθαι, ἐὰν κωμάσασ μετ’ αὐτῶν ἐμπρήσῃ τὰ βασίλεια καὶ τὰ Περσῶν περιβόητα γυναικῶν χεῖρεσ ἐν βραχεῖ καιρῷ ποιήσωσιν ἄφαντα. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 71 14:1)
  • ὦ τὰ ἄφαντα φήναντεσ, κοινοὶ τῶν ὑπὸ γῆσ καὶ ὑπὲρ γῆσ θεῶν πολέμιοι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:5)

Synonyms

  1. in secret

  2. obscure

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

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