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διάφωνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: διάφωνος διάφωνον

Structure: διαφων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fwnh/

Sense

  1. discordant

Examples

  • ἔστι δὲ τοσοῦτον τῶν ἁμαρτανομένων ἐν αὐτοῖσ ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἐρατοσθένουσ τὸ πλῆθοσ, καὶ ὑπὸ Τιμοσθένουσ τοῦ τοὺσ λιμένασ συγγράψαντοσ ὃν ἐπαινεῖ μὲν ἐκεῖνοσ μάλιστα τῶν ἄλλων, διαφωνῶν δ’ ἐλέγχεται πρὸσ αὐτὸν πλεῖστα, ὥστ’ οὐκ ἄξιον ἡγοῦμαι διαιτᾶν οὔτ’ ἐκείνουσ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον διαμαρτάνοντασ τῶν ὄντων, οὔτε τὸν Ἵππαρχον. (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 78:5)

Synonyms

  1. discordant

Related

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

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