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κοῦφος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοῦφος κοῦφη κοῦφον

Structure: κουφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. light, nimble, too buoyant
  2. light, easy
  3. empty, unsubstantial, vain
  4. light, lightly, sit tibi terra levis
  5. lightly, nimbly
  6. lightly, with light heart, lightly
  7. lightly, with ease

Examples

  • καὶ κούφη αὐτὴ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ Κυρίου, καὶ παραδώσω τὴν Μωὰβ ἐν χειρὶ ὑμῶν, (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 3:18)
  • φήμη γάρ τε κακὴ πέλεται, κούφη μὲν ἀεῖραι ῥεῖα μάλ’, ἀργαλέη δὲ φέρειν, χαλεπὴ δ’ ἀποθέσθαι. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 92:3)
  • εἰ γάρ εἰσιν οἱ θεοὶ σοφοί, εὔψυχον ἄνδρα πολεμίων θανόνθ’ ὕπο κούφῃ καταμπίσχουσιν ἐν τύμβῳ χθονί, κακοὺσ δ’ ἐφ’ ἑρ́μα στερεὸν ἐκβάλλουσι γῆσ. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 4:24)
  • καὶ αὐτὴ τῶν σελαχίων οὖσα, εὔπεπτόσ ἐστι καὶ κούφη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 2:3)
  • ὃσ καὶ ἀπέθανεν ἐν τῇ Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ, καὶ ἐπιγέγραπται αὐτοῦ τῷ μνήματι τῷ κωμῳδογράφῳ, κούφη κόνι, τὸν φιλάγωνα κισσὸν ὑπὲρ τύμβου ζῶντα Μάχωνι φέροισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 40 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. light

  2. light

  3. empty

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

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