Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

Examples

  • βέβηκεν ἄλοχοσ σὴ πρὸσ αἰθέροσ πτυχὰσ ἀρθεῖσ’ ἄφαντοσ· (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 2:10)
  • ἃ δ’ ἐκ θαλάμων ἐγένετο διαπρὸ δωμάτων ἄφαντοσ, ὦ Ζεῦ καὶ γᾶ καὶ φῶσ καὶ νύξ, ἤτοι φαρμάκοισιν ἢ μάγων τέχναισ ἢ θεῶν κλοπαῖσ. (Euripides, episode, lyric 3:11)
  • ἤκουσα γὰρ δὴ τὴν ἐμὴν ξυνάορον ὡσ οὐ τέθνηκεν, ἀλλ’ ἄφαντοσ οἴχεται ‐ κενὴν ἀκούσασ βάξιν, ἣν φόβῳ σφαλεὶσ ἤγγειλέ μοί τισ. (Euripides, episode, iambic3)
  • οὐδὲ θαλάσσησ εἰ δέ τισ ἔστι, θεοῖσ δῆλοσ θνητοῖσι δ’ ἄφαντοσ. (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 1 3:2)
  • τὸ πᾶν δ’ ἄφαντοσ ἀμπετὴσ ἀιδνὸσ ὡσ κόνισ ἄτερθε πτερύγων ὀλοίμαν. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 14)

Synonyms

  1. in secret

  2. obscure

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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