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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ά̓φατος ἄφάτη ά̓φατον
Genitive ἀφάτου ἄφάτης ἀφάτου
Dative ἀφάτῳ ἄφάτῃ ἀφάτῳ
Accusative ά̓φατον ἄφάτην ά̓φατον
Vocative ά̓φατε ἄφάτη ά̓φατον
DualN/A/V ἀφάτω ἄφάτᾱ ἀφάτω
G/D ἀφάτοιν ἄφάταιν ἀφάτοιν
PluralNominative ά̓φατοι ά̓́φαται ά̓φατα
Genitive ἀφάτων ἄφατῶν ἀφάτων
Dative ἀφάτοις ἄφάταις ἀφάτοις
Accusative ἀφάτους ἄφάτᾱς ά̓φατα
Vocative ά̓φατοι ά̓́φαται ά̓φατα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ά̓φατος ἀφάτου ἀφατώτερος ἀφατωτέρου ἀφατώτατος ἀφατωτάτου
Adverb ἀφάτως ἀφατώτερον ἀφατώτατα

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

  • πρώτη δ’ ἡγεῖται ἡ περὶ θεοῦ λέγουσα, ὁ θεὸσ ἔχει τὰ σύμπαντα παντελὴσ καὶ μακάριοσ, αὐτὸσ αὑτῷ καὶ πᾶσιν αὐτάρκησ, ἀρχὴ καὶ μέσα καὶ τέλοσ οὗτοσ τῶν πάντων, ἔργοισ μὲν καὶ χάρισιν ἐναργὴσ καὶ παντὸσ οὗτινοσ φανερώτεροσ, μορφὴν δὲ καὶ μέγεθοσ ἡμῖν ἄφατοσ· (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 147:3)
  • μέγασ, ἴδε, μάλ’ ὅδ’ ἐρείπεται κτύποσ ἄφατοσ διόβολοσ· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • δῦ δέ μιν ἀλκὴ σμερδαλέη ἄφατόσ τε καὶ ἄτρομοσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 21:7)

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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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