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διάφορος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: διάφορος διάφορον

Structure: διαφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: diafe/rw

Sense

  1. different, unlike
  2. differing or disagreeing, at variance with, adversary
  3. distinguished, remarkable
  4. making a difference to one, advantageous, profitable
  5. a difference
  6. what concerns one, a matter of importance
  7. a difference, disagreement
  8. one's balance, expenditure
  9. with a difference, variously, to differ
  10. excellently

Examples

  • ὥσπερ οἶμαι καὶ πυρὸν ἢν τὸν αὐτὸν ἐσ διαφόρουσ χώρασ ἐμβάλῃσ, ἄλλωσ μὲν ἐν τῇ πεδινῇ καὶ βαθείᾳ καὶ ποτιζομένῃ καὶ εὐηλίῳ καὶ εὐηνέμῳ καὶ ἐξειργασμένῃ ἀναφύσεται, εὐθαλὴσ οἶμαι καὶ εὔτροφοσ καὶ πολύχουσ καρπόσ, ἄλλωσ δὲ ἐν ὄρει καὶ ὑπολίθῳ γηδίῳ, ἄλλωσ δὲ ἐν δυσηλίῳ, ἄλλωσ δὲ ἐν ὑπωρείᾳ, καὶ ὅλωσ διαφόρωσ καθ’ ἑκάστουσ τόπουσ. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 27:5)
  • τούτων οὖν διαφόρωσ ἱστορουμένων λάβωμεν τὸν ἐλάχιστον ἀριθμὸν τὰ κγ’ ἔτη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 587)
  • ὁ δὲ πεζὸσ οὐκέτι διαφόρωσ, ἀλλ’ ἀπὸ μιᾶσ ὁρμῆσ οἰμωγῇ τε καὶ στόνῳ πάντεσ δυσανασχετοῦντεσ τὰ γιγνόμενα, οἳ μὲν ἐπὶ τὰσ ναῦσ παρεβοήθουν, οἳ δὲ πρὸσ τὸ λοιπὸν τοῦ τείχουσ ἐσ φυλακήν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 26 6:3)
  • ἦν δ’ οὗτοσ ἀνὴρ πλήρησ συνέσεωσ καὶ λογισμοῦ δυνάμενόσ τε πράγματα κακῶσ κείμενα φρονήσει τῇ ἑαυτοῦ διορθώσασθαι, φίλοσ τε παλαιὸσ τῷ Ιωἄννῃ καὶ συνήθησ, πρὸσ ἐμὲ δὲ τότε διαφόρωσ εἶχεν. (Flavius Josephus, 230:1)
  • Στησίλεω γάρ, ὃσ ἦν γένει Κεῖοσ, ἰδέᾳ τε καὶ μορφῇ σώματοσ πολὺ τῶν ἐν ὡρ́ᾳ λαμπρότατοσ, ἀμφοτέρουσ ἐρασθέντασ οὐ μετρίωσ ἐνεγκεῖν τὸ πάθοσ οὐδ’ ἅμα λήγοντι τῷ κάλλει τοῦ παιδὸσ ἀποθέσθαι τὴν φιλονεικίαν, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἐγγυμνασαμένουσ ἐκείνῃ πρὸσ τὴν πολιτείαν εὐθὺσ ὁρμῆσαι διαπύρουσ ὄντασ καὶ διαφόρωσ ἔχοντασ. (Plutarch, , chapter 2 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. different

  2. distinguished

  3. making a difference to one

  4. a difference

  5. a difference

  6. excellently

Related

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

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