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ἁφή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁφή

Structure: ἁφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ptw

Sense

  1. a lighting, kindling, lighting
  2. a touching, touch, the sense of touch

Declension

First 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

  • ὑψηλὴ δὲ καὶ μεγαλοπρεπὴσ οὐκ ἔστιν ἡ Λυσίου λέξισ οὐδὲ καταπληκτικὴ μὰ Δία καὶ θαυμαστὴ οὐδὲ τὸ πικρὸν ἢ τὸ δεινὸν ἢ τὸ φοβερὸν ἐπιφαίνουσα οὐδὲ ἁφὰσ ἔχει καὶ τόνουσ ἰσχυροὺσ οὐδὲ θυμοῦ καὶ πνεύματόσ ἐστι μεστὴ οὐδ’, ὥσπερ ἐν τοῖσ ἤθεσίν ἐστι πιθανή, οὕτωσ ἐν τοῖσ πάθεσιν ἰσχυρὰ οὐδ’ ὡσ ἡδῦναι καὶ πεῖσαι καὶ χαριεντίσασθαι δύναται, οὕτω βιάσασθαί τε καὶ προσαναγκάσαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 13 1:3)
  • καίτοι γε τοῖσ ἀθληταῖσ τῆσ ἀληθινῆσ λέξεωσ ἰσχυρὰσ τὰσ ἁφὰσ προσεῖναι δεῖ καὶ ἀφύκτουσ τὰσ λαβάσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 18 2:3)
  • τί γὰρ ἂν εὖ γένοιτ’ ἔτι τῆσ ἰδιότητοσ πρὸσ ἑτέραν μεμιγμένησ καὶ συμπλεκομένησ οὐχὶ συμφώνουσ ἁφάσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 60 5:4)
  • "ἄλλαι τε δυνάμεισ ἁφὰσ; (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 146)
  • ὁ δὲ τὴν μὲν ἀληθῆ πρὸσ Ἀντώνιον αἰτίαν ἀποκρυψάμενοσ, ἀναγκαίου δέ τινοσ συγγενοῦσ σκηψάμενοσ πεπύσθαι θάνατον, οὗ τὴν ἐκκομιδήν τε καὶ ταφὴν αὐτὸν ἔδει ποιήσασθαι κατὰ τὸν νόμον, ἀφίεται καὶ περὶ λύχνων ἁφὰσ ἤλαυνε μετὰ τῶν μειρακίων κατ’ ἄλλασ ὁδοὺσ διωγμὸν ἔκ τε τοῦ στρατοπέδου καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ πόλεωσ δεδοικώσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 33 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a lighting

  2. a touching

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

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