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κωφότης?

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration: kōphotēs

Principal Part: κωφότης κωφότες

Structure: κωφοτη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from κωφός

Sense

  1. deafness

Declension

Third 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

  • κωφότης γὰρ αὐθαίρετός ἐστιν, ἀνθρώπων, οἶμαι, μεμφομένων τὴν φύσιν, ὅτι μίαν μὲν γλῶτταν δύο δ ὦτ ἔχουσιν. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 1 1:3)
  • κωφότης γὰρ αὐθαίρετός ἐστιν, ἀνθρώπων οἶμαι μεμφομένων τὴν φύσιν, ὅτι μίαν μὲν γλῶτταν δύο δ ὦτ ἔχουσιν. (Plutarch, De garrulitate, section 1 2:2)
  • καὶ κωφότης καὶ σιωπὴ καὶ θάνατος· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 2 1:3)
  • εἰκοστῇ ποδῶν ὀδύνη‧ κωφότης, παράληρος ἀπέλιπεν, ᾑμορράγησε σμικρὰ διὰ Ῥινῶν, ἵδρωσεν, ἄπυρος. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 338)
  • καὶ τὰς ἑπομένας ἄση, κωφότης‧ ἐνῆν καὶ παράληρος. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 337)

Synonyms

  1. deafness

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

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