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ἄφθονος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: aphthonos

Principal Part: ἄφθονος

Structure: ἀφθον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. without envy
  2. free from envy
  3. ungrudging, bounteous
  4. not grudged, bounteously given, plentiful, abundant, in plenty
  5. unenvied, provoking no envy
  6. in abundance, enough

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἐπεὶ οἱ πρῶτοι ἄνθρωποι, οἷς δὴ οὐ παρῆν ἄφθονος τροφή ἄρτι φαινομένης ἀθρόον ἐπ αὐτὴν ἰόντες βίᾳ ἡρ´παζον καὶ ἀφῃροῦντο τοὺς ἔχοντας, καὶ μετὰ τῆς ἀκοσμίας ἐγίνοντο καὶ φόνοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 21 1:2)
  • καὶ μὴν εἴπερ ἓν καὶ ταὐτὸ στόμα διτταῖς ὑπηρετεῖ δυνάμεσιν, ἐν διαφόροις χρόνοις εἰς τἀναντία τὴν ὁλκὴν ποιουμέναις, ἔμπροσθεν μὲν τῇ κατὰ τὸ ἧπαρ, ἐν δὲ τῷ τῆς καθάρσεως καιρῷ τῇ τοῦ φαρμάκου, τί θαυμαστόν ἐστι διττὴν ὑπηρεσίαν τε καὶ χρείαν εἶναι ταῖς φλεψὶ ταῖς ἐν τῷ μέσῳ τεταγμέναις ἥπατός τε καὶ τῶν κατὰ τὴν κοιλίαν, ὥσθ, ὁπότε μὲν ἐν τούτοις ἄφθονος εἰή περιεχομένη τροφή, διὰ τῶν εἰρημένων εἰς ἧπαρ ἀναφέρεσθαι φλεβῶν, ὁπότε δ εἰή κενὰ καὶ δεόμενα τρέφεσθαι, διὰ τῶν αὐτῶν αὖθις ἐξ ἥπατος ἕλκεσθαι· (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., G, section 1310)
  • οὕτως ἄφθονος μὲν ἦν ἄργυρος, ἄφθονος δὲ χρυσός, καὶ γὰρ τὸ στρατόπεδον μετὰ τῶν ὑποζυγίων διαβάντες ἔλαβον. (Plutarch, Timoleon, chapter 29 1:2)
  • τλήμονες, ἀλλ ὁ μὲν εἱρ῀πε παραὶ ποσὶν ἄφθονος ἡμῖν τῆς δ ἄρ ὑπ ἐλπωρῇ μοῦνον ἐπαιζόμεθα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 64 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. without envy

  2. free from envy

  3. unenvied

  4. in abundance

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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

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