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ἀφυής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφυής ἀφυές

Structure: ἀφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fuh/

Sense

  1. without natural talent, witless, dull, naturally unsuited
  2. simple, unschooled

Declension

Third 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

  • ἡ δὲ ἀφύη βαρεῖά ἐστι καὶ δύσπεπτοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 1:1)
  • ἀφυὲσ γάρ καὶ μικρόν, ὥσπερ καὶ ἡ ἀφύη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 2 2:7)
  • ἡ δὲ Φαληρικὴ ἦλθ’ ἀφύη, Τρίτωνοσ ἑταίρη, ἄντα παρειάων σχομένη ῥυπαρὰ κρήδεμνα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 6:4)
  • "τῷ καιρῷ, Σήστιε μέλλεισ γὰρ αὔριον ἰδιώτησ εἶναι" Πόπλιον δὲ Κώνσταν νομικὸν εἶναι βουλόμενον, ὄντα δ’ ἀμαθῆ καί ἀφυῆ, πρόσ τινα δίκην ἐκάλεσε μάρτυρα· (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 26 5:2)
  • Ἀριστώνυμοσ Ἡλίῳ ῥιγῶντι, ὥστ’ οὔτ’ ἀφύη νῦν ἔστ’ ἔθ’ ἁπλῶσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 22 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. simple

Related

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

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