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σαφηνής

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαφηνής

Structure: σαφην (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: = safh/s, Aesch., Soph.

Sense

  1. the plain truth

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σαφηνής σαφηνᾱ́ σαφηναί
Genitive σαφηνοῦ σαφηναῖν σαφηνῶν
Dative σαφηνῇ σαφηναῖν σαφηναῖς
Accusative σαφηνήν σαφηνᾱ́ σαφηνᾱ́ς
Vocative σαφηνά σαφηνᾱ́ σαφηναί

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

  • λόγοσ κρατεῖ σαφηνὴσ τοῦτό γ’, οὐδ’ ἔνι στάσισ. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees 1:30)

Synonyms

  1. the plain truth

Similar forms

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

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