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ἄφατος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄφατος ἄφατη ἄφατον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + φατ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not uttered, nameless
  2. untold, unutterable, ineffable, extraordinary, there's no saying how, marvellously, immensely

Examples

  • φεῦ δᾶ τὸν ὁρ́κον ἄφατον ὡσ ἐπαινίω. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 5:21)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁ πρωκτὸσ ἄφατον ὡσ καλόσ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, anapests 1:18)
  • ἄφατον ἄφατον ἀναύδητον λόγον ἐμοὶ θροεῖσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic 1:7)
  • ἄφατον ὡσ φρόνιμοσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Choral, lyric13)

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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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