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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

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative κοῦφος κούφη κοῦφον
Genitive κούφου κούφης κούφου
Dative κούφῳ κούφῃ κούφῳ
Accusative κοῦφον κούφην κοῦφον
Vocative κοῦφε κούφη κοῦφον
DualN/A/V κούφω κούφᾱ κούφω
G/D κούφοιν κούφαιν κούφοιν
PluralNominative κοῦφοι κοῦφαι κοῦφα
Genitive κούφων κουφῶν κούφων
Dative κούφοις κούφαις κούφοις
Accusative κούφους κούφᾱς κοῦφα
Vocative κοῦφοι κοῦφαι κοῦφα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective κοῦφος κούφου κουφότερος κουφοτέρου κουφότατος κουφοτάτου
Adverb κούφως κουφότερον κουφότατα

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

  • ἀναπέτομαι δὴ πρὸσ Ὄλυμπον πτερύγεσσι κούφαισ· (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode, lyric1)
  • ἄχρι δὲ τούτου χάσκοντεσ κούφαισ ἐλπίσι τερπόμεθα, χὤστισ μὲν νούσοισιν ὑπ’ ἀργαλέῃσι πιεσθῇ, ὡσ ὑγιὴσ ἔσται, τοῦτο κατεφράσατο· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 100)
  • τὸν Νυμφῶν θεράποντα, φιλόμβριον, ὑγρὸν ἀοιδόν, τὸν λιβάσιν κούφαισ τερπόμενον βάτραχον χαλκῷ μορφώσασ τισ ὁδοιπόροσ εὖχοσ ἔθηκε, καύματοσ ἐχθροτάτην δίψαν ἀκεσσάμενοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 431)
  • καὶ ναυτικοὶ μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖσ Ἀρδιαίοισ ἐγένοντο Λιβυρνοί, γένοσ ἕτερον Ἰλλυριῶν, οἳ τὸν Ιὄνιον καὶ τὰσ νήσουσ ἐλῄστευον ναυσὶν ὠκείαισ τε καὶ κούφαισ, ὅθεν ἔτι νῦν Ῥωμαῖοι τὰ κοῦφα καὶ ὀξέα δίκροτα Λιβυρνίδασ προσαγορεύουσιν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 2:11)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ οἱ στόλοι συνέπεσον ἀλλήλοισ, ἰσχύι μὲν καὶ προθυμίᾳ τὰ Ῥωμαίων ἐπεκράτει, διὰ δὲ βαρύτητα τῶν σκαφῶν τοὺσ ἐχθροὺσ οὐκ ἐδύναντο καταλαμβάνειν κούφαισ ναυσὶν ὑποφεύγοντασ, ἑώσ οἳ μὲν ἐσ τὴν Ἔφεσον ὀξέωσ κατέφυγον, οἳ δ’ ἐσ Χίον ἀπῇραν, ἔνθα αὐτοῖσ Ῥοδίων νῆεσ συμμαχίδεσ ἦλθον ἑπτὰ καὶ εἴκοσιν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 1:11)

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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