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νήφων

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: νήφων νήφονος

Structure: νηφων (Stem)

Sense

  1. sober

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

  • Αἰσχρόν τοι μεθύοντα παρ’ ἀνδράσι νήφοσιν εἶναι αἰσχρὸν δ’ εἰ νήφων πὰρ μεθύουσι μένει. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389352)

Synonyms

  1. sober

Related

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

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