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ἄφθονος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

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

Examples

  • ἀδόλωσ τε ἔμαθον ἀφθόνωσ τε μεταδίδωμι, τὸν πλοῦτον αὐτῆσ οὐκ ἀποκρύπτομαι. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 7:13)
  • κοίλην μὲν γὰρ δἰ ὀλίγου τὴν θάλασσαν ἐποίησεν, ὡσ μὴ κατὰ τὰσ κώπασ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπὲρ τὰσ παρεξειρεσίασ ἐπεσρεῖν ἡμῖν ἑκατέρωθεν ἀφθόνωσ τοῦ ὕδατοσ, τοῦτο δὴ τὸ τραγικόν, ̔καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐξηντλοῦμεν, ἣ δ̓ ἐπεσρέει. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 3 6:1)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ μὴν ὁ πλούσιοσ, ὁ παρὰ τῆσ οὐσίασ ἀφθόνωσ ταῖσ ἐπιθυμίαισ χορηγῶν, δυνήσεται τοῦδε ἐφικέσθαι. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 12:16)
  • σὺ δέ με αὐτὴν δίκαιοσ διδάσκειν ἀφθόνωσ, ἐπεὶ καὶ πρῶτοσ μαθητήσ σοι γίγνομαι. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 61:12)
  • παρὰ πόδασ τοιγαροῦν τῆσ λιχνείασ ταύτησ τἀπίχειρα, καὶ ὥσπερ οἱ πίθηκοι δεθεὶσ κλοιῷ τὸν τράχηλον ἄλλοισ μὲν γέλωτα παρέχεισ, σεαυτῷ δὲ δοκεῖσ τρυφᾶν, ὅτι ἔστι σοι τῶν ἰσχάδων ἀφθόνωσ ἐντραγεῖν. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 24:8)

Synonyms

  1. without envy

  2. free from envy

  3. unenvied

  4. in abundance

Related

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

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