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διάδηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διάδηλος διάδηλον

Structure: διαδηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. distinguishable among others

Examples

  • καθάπερ γὰρ ἐν ταῖσ κυνηγεσίαισ τὰ ζῷα τότε διάδηλα γίνεται κατὰ τὴν ἀλκὴν καὶ τὴν δύναμιν, ὅταν τὸ δεινὸν αὐτὰ περιστῇ πανταχόθεν, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον συμβαίνει καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἡγουμένων. (Polybius, Histories, book 10, vii. res graeciae 7:1)
  • " οὕτωσ, ὦ ξένοι, ἔγωγε ἤθελον ἂν ὑμᾶσ καὶ ἔτι νῦν βούλομαι διεξελθεῖν πῶσ ἐν τοῖσ τοῦ Διὸσ λεγομένοισ νόμοισ τοῖσ τε τοῦ Πυθίου Ἀπόλλωνοσ, οὓσ Μίνωσ τε καὶ Λυκοῦργοσ ἐθέτην, ἔνεστίν τε πάντα ταῦτα, καὶ ὅπῃ τάξιν τινὰ εἰληφότα διάδηλά ἐστιν τῷ περὶ νόμων ἐμπείρῳ τέχνῃ εἴτε καί τισιν ἔθεσιν, τοῖσ δὲ ἄλλοισ ἡμῖν οὐδαμῶσ ἐστι καταφανῆ. (Plato, Laws, book 1 49:2)

Synonyms

  1. distinguishable among others

Related

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

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