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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

  • τῷ δ’ ἐναντία ψυχὰ προφάνη Μελεάγρου καί νιν εὖ εἰδὼσ προσεῖπεν· (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 6:2)
  • τὰ δ’ ἡμέτερα πάνυ ῥᾷστα, ὡσ οἶσθα,, καὶ ἐσ μίμησιν πρόχειρα ‐ τὰ προφανῆ λέγω ‐ καὶ οὐ πολλῆσ τῆσ πραγματείασ δεῖ τριβώνιον περιβαλέσθαι καὶ πήραν ἐξαρτήσασθαι καὶ ξύλον ἐν τῇ χειρὶ ἔχειν καὶ βοᾶν, μᾶλλον δὲ ὀγκᾶσθαι ἢ ὑλακτεῖν, καὶ λοιδορεῖσθαι ἅπασιν· (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 14:1)
  • ἐῶ λέγειν ὅτι οἱ ἔπαινοι ἑνὶ μὲν ἴσωσ τερπνοί, τῷ ἐπαινουμένῳ, τοῖσ δ̓ ἄλλοισ ἐπαχθεῖσ, καὶ μάλιστα ἢν ὑπερφυεῖσ τὰσ ὑπερβολὰσ ἔχωσιν, οἱούσ αὐτοὺσ οἱ πολλοὶ ἀπεργάζονται, τὴν εὔνοιαν τὴν παρὰ τῶν ἐπαινουμένων θηρώμενοι καὶ ἐνδιατρίβοντεσ ἄχρι τοῦ πᾶσι προφανῆ τὴν κολακείαν ἐξεργάσασθαι· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 11 1:3)
  • οὕτω δ’ ἀρχαίωσ εἶχον, μᾶλλον δὲ πολιτικῶσ, ὥστ’ οὐδὲ χρημάτων ὠνεῖσθαι παρ’ οὐδενὸσ οὐδέν, ἀλλ’ εἶναι νόμιμόν τινα καὶ προφανῆ τὸν πόλεμον. (Demosthenes, Speeches, 57:2)
  • τὰ προφανῆ μὲν γὰρ κἂν ἐκ λογισμοῦ καὶ λόγου τισ προέλοιτο, τὰ δ’ ἐξαίφνησ κατὰ τὴν ἕξιν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 124:2)

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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