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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

  • Θησεῦ, <σὺ> τάδε μὲν βλέπεισ σαφῆ Διὸσ δῶρα· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 17 4:3)
  • οὕτω σαφῆ πάντα ἦν. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 5:5)
  • οὐ γὰρ διανοουμένουσ μόνον ὑποτίθεται χρηστὰ καὶ ἐπιεικῆ καὶ μέτρια τοὺσ λέγοντασ, ὥστε εἰκόνασ εἶναι δοκεῖν τῶν ἠθῶν τοὺσ λόγουσ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν λέξιν ἀποδίδωσι τοῖσ ἤθεσιν οἰκείαν, ᾗ πέφυκεν αὐτὰ ἑαυτῶν κράτιστα δηλοῦσθαι, τὴν σαφῆ καὶ κυρίαν καὶ κοινὴν καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ συνηθεστάτην· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 84)
  • ὡσ ἡδέωσ κακοῖσιν οἰκείοισ γελᾷσ, μέλπεισ θ’ ἃ μέλπουσ’ οὐ σαφῆ δείξεισ ἴσωσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 2:13)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἐγνώρισαν σαφῆ κελευσμὸν Βακχίου Κάδμου κόραι, ᾖξαν πελείασ ὠκύτητ’ οὐχ ἥσσονεσ ποδῶν τρέχουσαι συντόνοισ δραμήμασι, μήτηρ Ἀγαύη σύγγονοί θ’ ὁμόσποροι πᾶσαί τε βάκχαι· (Euripides, episode, lyric 5:4)

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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