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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

  • παρέχουσα δ’ ἀφθονώτατα τἀγαθὰ οὐκ ἐᾷ ταῦτα μετὰ μαλακίασ λαμβάνειν, ἀλλὰ ψύχη τε χειμῶνοσ καὶ θάλπη θέρουσ ἐθίζει καρτερεῖν. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 5 4:1)
  • ἡγεῖσθε μὲν γάρ, ὦ ἄνδρεσ, εὐδαίμονασ ἑαυτοὺσ καὶ μακαρίουσ, ἐπειδὴ πόλιν τε μεγάλην οἰκεῖτε καὶ χώραν ἀγαθὴν νέμεσθε καὶ πλεῖστα δὴ καὶ ἀφθονώτατα παρ’ αὑτοῖσ ὁρᾶτε τὰ ἐπιτήδεια, καὶ ποταμὸσ ὑμῖν οὗτοσ διὰ μέσησ διαρρεῖ τῆσ πόλεωσ, πρὸσ τούτοισ δὲ μητρόπολισ ἡ Ταρσὸσ τῶν κατὰ Κιλικίαν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 22:1)
  • τούτων δὴ ἕνεκα βούλομαι ὡσ ἀφθονώτατα χρήματα ἔχειν, δεῖσθαι τούτων νομίζων. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 36:4)

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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