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προφανής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προφανής προφανές

Structure: προφανη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from profai/nw

Sense

  1. shewing itself or seen beforehand
  2. seen clearly or plainly, conspicuous
  3. quite plain or clear, openly

Examples

  • οὐ γὰρ ὅμοιον τὸ πᾶσι προφανὲσ ἐπαινέσαι καὶ τὰ ἄδηλα ἐμφανίσαι τῷ λόγῳ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 12:3)
  • ὡσ γὰρ δὴ ἐκράτησε τῶν Ἰταλῶν, ἐῶ λέγειν ὅτι οὐκ ἰσχύι, ἀλλὰ πονηρίᾳ καὶ ἀπιστίᾳ καὶ δόλοισ, νόμιμον δὲ ἢ προφανὲσ οὐδέν. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 14:2)
  • πορευομένων δὲ ἐπεὶ νὺξ ἐπεγένετο, λέγεται φῶσ τῷ Κύρῳ καὶ τῷ στρατεύματι ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ προφανὲσ γενέσθαι, ὥστε πᾶσι μὲν φρίκην ἐγγίγνεσθαι πρὸσ τὸ θεῖον, θάρροσ δὲ πρὸσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 18:1)
  • στρέψαντοσ αὐτοῦ τὸ διερρωγὸσ τοῦ τρίβωνοσ εἰσ τὸ προφανέσ, Σωκράτησ ἰδών φησιν, "ὁρῶ σου διὰ τοῦ τρίβωνοσ τὴν φιλοδοξίαν. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. ANTISQENHS 8:4)
  • ὅτι δὲ τοὺσ ὑπὸ τὴν μεσημβρίαν οἰκοῦντασ πιθανόν ἐστι πρώτουσ ὑπὸ τῆσ γῆσ ἐζωογονῆσθαι, προφανὲσ ὑπάρχειν ἅπασι· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 2 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. shewing itself or seen beforehand

  2. seen clearly or plainly

  3. quite plain or clear

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

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