Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κωφός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κωφός κωφή κωφόν

Structure: κωφ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ko/ptw

Sense

  1. blunt, dull, obtuse, the blunt, dull
  2. dumb, mute, dumb, the dumb, senseless, dull, ringing, noisy
  3. dumb, deaf and dumb
  4. deaf
  5. dull, stupid, senseless, unmeaning

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • ἡσυχία δὲ κωφὴ καὶ βίοσ ἑδραῖοσ ἐπὶ σχολῆσ ἀποκείμενοσ οὐ μόνον σῶμα ἀλλὰ καὶ ψυχὴν μαραίνει· (Plutarch, An Recte Dictum Sit Latenter Esse Vivendum, section 4 9:1)
  • ἤκουσασ ἢ οὐκ ἤκουσασ, ἢ κωφῇ λέγω; (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode10)
  • κωφὴ δέ σφιν ἐπιβλύει ὕδατοσ ἄχνη· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 20:4)
  • εἰ δ’ οὖν τινα κατέχοι φήμη κωφὴ τῶν τοιούτων προοιμίων, νόμοσ ὅδε ἐπὶ τούτοισ ὀρθῶσ κείμενοσ ἂν εἰή· (Plato, Laws, book 11 126:1)
  • ὁ δὲ τρίτοσ τοῦ Ἀγρίππου ἀδελφὸσ Ἀριστόβουλοσ γαμεῖ Ιὠτάπην Σαμψιγεράμου θυγατέρα τοῦ Ἐμεσῶν βασιλέωσ, θυγάτηρ τε αὐτοῖσ γίνεται κωφή· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 166:1)

Synonyms

  1. blunt

  2. dumb

  3. deaf

  4. dull

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

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