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εὐφυής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐφυής εὐφυές

Structure: εὐφυη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fuh/

Sense

  1. well-grown, shapely, goodly
  2. of good natural disposition
  3. naturally suited or adapted
  4. of good natural parts, clever

Declension

Third declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative εὐφυής εύ̓φυες
Genitive εὐφυούς εὐφύους
Dative εὐφυεί εὐφύει
Accusative εὐφυή εύ̓φυες
Vocative εὐφυές εύ̓φυες
DualN/A/V εὐφυεί εὐφύει
G/D εὐφυοίν εὐφύοιν
PluralNominative εὐφυείς εὐφύη
Genitive εὐφυών εὐφύων
Dative εὐφυέσιν* εὐφύεσιν*
Accusative εὐφυείς εὐφύη
Vocative εὐφυείς εὐφύη
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective εὐφυής εὐφυούς εὐφυέστερος εὐφυεστέρου εὐφυέστατος εὐφυεστάτου
Adverb εὐφυέως εὐφυέστερον εὐφυέστατα

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

  • "τοῦτο δὴ τὸ ἐρωτικὸν μηχάνημα καὶ σόφισμα περὶ τὰσ εὐφυεῖσ καὶ φιλοκάλουσ ψυχὰσ ἀνάκλασιν ποιεῖ τῆσ μνήμησ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνταῦθα φαινομένων καὶ προσαγορευομένων καλῶν εἰσ τὸ θεῖον καὶ ἐράσμιον καὶ μακάριον ὡσ ἀληθῶσ ἐκεῖνο καὶ θαυμάσιον καλόν. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 20 2:5)
  • εὐφυεῖσ οὗτοι καὶ ὁμογλώσσουσ ἐπαίδευον, εἰ μηδὲν ἄλλο φωνῆσ Ἑλληνίδοσ συνιέντασ· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 5 1:2)
  • εὐφυεῖσ οὗτοι καὶ ὁμογλώσσουσ ἐπαίδευον, εἰ μηδὲν ἄλλο, φωνῆσ Ἑλληνίδοσ συνιέντασ· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 1, section 52)
  • οἱ δ’ εὐφυεῖσ χλευάζοντεσ οὐχ ὑπὸ συνάγχησ ἔφραζον, ἀλλ’ ὑπ’ ἀργυράγχησ εἰλῆφθαι νύκτωρ τὸν δημαγωγόν. (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 25 5:1)
  • εὐφυεῖσ ὀδόντασ ἔσχεν ἐξ ἀνάγκησ δεῖ γελᾶν, ἵνα θεωρῶσ1’ οἱ παρόντεσ τὸ στόμ’ ὡσ κομψὸν φορεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 23 2:8)

Synonyms

  1. well-grown

  2. of good natural disposition

  3. naturally suited or adapted

  4. of good natural parts

Related

Similar forms

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

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