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ἀφρός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφρός ἀφροῦ

Structure: ἀφρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. foam, of the sea
  2. (of persons and animals) foam, slaver, froth

Declension

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

  • ἣ δ’ ἀφρὸν ἐξιεῖσα καὶ διαστρόφουσ κόρασ ἑλίσσουσ’, οὐ φρονοῦσ’ ἃ χρὴ φρονεῖν, ἐκ Βακχίου κατείχετ’, οὐδ’ ἔπειθέ νιν. (Euripides, episode, lyric 8:1)
  • ἅτεροσ δὲ τοῖν ξένοιν ἀφρόν τ’ ἀπέψη σώματόσ τ’ ἐτημέλει πέπλων τε προυκάλυπτεν εὐπήνουσ ὑφάσ, καραδοκῶν μὲν τἀπιόντα τραύματα, φίλον δὲ θεραπείαισιν ἄνδρ’ εὐεργετῶν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 4:8)
  • ὁ δ’ οὐκέθ’ αὑτὸσ ἦν, ἀλλ’ ἐν στροφαῖσιν ὀμμάτων ἐφθαρμένοσ ῥίζασ τ’ ἐν ὄσσοισ αἱματῶπασ ἐκβαλὼν ἀφρὸν κατέσταζ’ εὐτρίχου γενειάδοσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 1:6)
  • καί μοι ἐπ’ ὀφθαλμῶν λαβὲ τὴν ἐπανάστασιν τῶν κυμάτων, τὸν ἦχον τοῦ ὕδατοσ ἐπικλωμένου, τὸν ἀφρὸν περιζέοντα, τὴν νύκτα καὶ τὴν ἀπόγνωσιν εἶτα ἀποπνιγόμενον ἐκεῖνον καὶ μόγισ ἀνακύπτοντα καὶ τὰσ χεῖρασ ὀρέγοντα τῷ ἑταίρῳ, τὸν δὲ ἐπιπηδῶντα εὐθὺσ καὶ συννέοντα καὶ δεδιότα μὴ προαπόληται αὐτοῦ ὁ Δάμων. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 20:5)
  • τὸν γόνον ἐξαυδῶ, τὸν ἀφρὸν καλέουσιν Ιὤνεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 22 3:6)
  • οὗτοι γὰρ ἐκέκτηντο ἔνθεον μὲν τὴν ἀρετήν, ἀνθρώπινον δὲ τὸ θνητόν, πολλὰ μὲν δὴ τὸ παρὸν ἐπιεικὲσ τοῦ αὐθάδουσ δικαίου προκρίνοντεσ, πολλὰ δὲ νόμου ἀκριβείασ λόγων ὀρθότητα, τοῦτον νομίζοντεσ θειότατον καὶ κοινότατον νόμων τὸ δέον ἐν τῷ δέοντι καὶ λέγειν καὶ σιγᾶν καὶ ποιεῖν, καὶ δισσὰ ἀσκήσαντεσ μάλιστα ὧν δεῖ, γνώμην καὶ ῥώμην, τὴν μὲν βουλεύοντεσ τὴν δ’ ἀποτελοῦντεσ, θεράποντεσ μὲν τῶν ἀδίκωσ δυστυχούντων, κολασταὶ δὲ τῶν ἀδίκωσ εὐτυχούντων, αὐθάδεισ πρὸσ τὸ συμφέρον, εὐόργητοι πρὸσ τὸ πρέπον, τῷ φρονίμῳ τῆσ γνώμησ παύοντεσ τὸ ἄφρον, ὑβρισταὶ εἰσ τοὺσ ὑβρίζοντασ, κόσμιοι εἰσ τοὺσ κοσμίουσ, ἄφοβοι εἰσ τοὺσ ἀφόβουσ, δεινοὶ ἐν τοῖσ δεινοῖσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 16)

Synonyms

  1. foam

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