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σαφής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαφής σαφές

Structure: σαφη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. clear, plain, distinct, manifest, the clear truth
  2. certus Apollo, sure, unerring
  3. plainly, distinctly, well, certainly, manifestly, manifest

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

  • καὶ πῶσ δυνατόν, ὦ Ζεῦ, ἐφ’ οὕτω σαφεῖ καὶ προδήλῳ τῷ χρησμῷ; (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 31:8)
  • ἐν μὲν οὖν τῇ δευτέρᾳ βύβλῳ τὴν ἐπὶ Πλαταιὰσ Λακεδαιμονίων τε καὶ τῶν συμμάχων ἔλασιν ἀρξάμενοσ γράφειν ὑποτίθεται, τοῦ βασιλέωσ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων Ἀρχιδάμου μέλλοντοσ δῃώσειν τὴν γῆν, πρέσβεισ παρὰ τῶν Πλαταιέων ἀφιγμένουσ πρὸσ αὐτόν, καὶ λόγουσ ἀποδίδωσιν, οἱούσ εἰκὸσ ἦν ὑπὸ ἀμφοτέρων εἰρῆσθαι, τοῖσ τε προσώποισ πρέποντασ καὶ τοῖσ πράγμασιν οἰκείουσ καὶ μήτ’ ἐλλείποντασ τοῦ μετρίου μήτε ὑπεραίροντασ, λέξει τε κεκόσμηκεν αὐτοὺσ καθαρᾷ καὶ σαφεῖ καὶ συντόμῳ καὶ τὰσ ἄλλασ ἀρετὰσ ἐχούσῃ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 361)
  • ἐν ἐκείνῳ μὲν γὰρ Ἀρχίδαμοσ ὁ Λακεδαιμόνιοσ δίκαιά τε προκαλεῖται τοὺσ Πλαταιεῖσ καὶ λέξει κέχρηται καθαρᾷ καὶ σαφεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν ἐχούσῃ σχῆμα βεβασανισμένον οὐδὲ ἀνακόλουθον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 41 4:2)
  • ταῦτα γὰρ ἐν τῷ σαφεῖ καὶ καθαρῷ τῆσ διαλέκτου τρόπῳ λεγόμενα προσείληφε καὶ τὸ τάχοσ καὶ τὸ κάλλοσ καὶ τὸν τόνον καὶ τὴν μεγαλοπρέπειαν καὶ τὴν δεινότητα, καὶ πάθουσ ἐστὶν ἐναγωνίου μεστά· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 48 1:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐνταῦθα πέπλεκται μὲν ἡ διάνοια πολυπλόκωσ, λέλεκται δ’ ἐκ τῆσ κοινότητοσ εἰσ τὴν ἀσυνήθη φράσιν ἐκβεβηκότα, φυλάττεται δὲ τὸ περιττὸν αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ σαφεῖ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 54 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. clear

  2. plainly

Related

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

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