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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

  • τίσ δὲ ξένουσ ἀφθονώτερον δέχεται; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 5 9:1)
  • τούτων γὰρ δήπου κοινωνήσαντεσ καὶ σῖτον ἀφθονώτερον ἐν ταῖσ κώμαισ ηὑρίσκετε διὰ τὸ ἀναγκάζεσθαι τοὺσ Θρᾷκασ κατὰ σπουδὴν μᾶλλον φεύγειν, καὶ προβάτων καὶ ἀνδραπόδων μᾶλλον μετέσχετε. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 6 31:1)
  • ὥστε ὅταν ὑμεῖσ πλήρη ἔχητε τὰ ἐπιτήδεια, τότε καὶ ἐμὲ ὄψεσθε ἀφθονώτερον διαιτώμενον· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 1 20:1)
  • τὰ δὲ ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν Ναυπλίᾳ λεγόμενα ἐσ τὸν ὄνον, ὡσ ἐπιφαγὼν ἀμπέλου κλῆμα ἀφθονώτερον ἐσ τὸ μέλλον ἀπέφηνε τὸν καρπόν ‐ καὶ ὄνοσ σφίσιν ἐν πέτρᾳ πεποιημένοσ διὰ τοῦτό ἐστιν ἅτε ἀμπέλων διδάξασ τομήν ‐ , παρίημι οὐκ ἀξιόλογα ἡγούμενοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 38 5:2)

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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