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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

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

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

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