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

  • "ἔστι δὲ κακόφωνοσ σφόδρα καὶ τῶν μεταλλικῶν κωφότατοσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 13:7)

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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