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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

  • καίτοι λέγοι τισ ἄν, ὡσ μετὰ τοῦ σαφοῦσ ἐξεταζόμενον ἡδὺ φαίνεται τὸ βραχύ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 17:3)
  • μάλιστα δὲ σωφρονητέον ἐν ταῖσ τῶν ὀρῶν ἢ τειχῶν ἢ ποταμῶν ἑρμηνείαισ, ὡσ μὴ δύναμιν λόγων ἀπειροκάλωσ παρεπιδείκνυσθαι δοκοίησ καὶ τὸ σαυτοῦ δρᾶν παρεὶσ τὴν ἱστορίαν, ἀλλ̓ ὀλίγον προσαψάμενοσ, τοῦ χρησίμου καὶ σαφοῦσ ἕνεκα, μεταβήσῃ ἐκφυγὼν τὸν ἰξὸν τὸν ἐν τῷ πράγματι καὶ τὴν τοιαύτην ἅπασαν λιχνείαν, οἱο͂ν ὁρᾷσ καὶ Ὅμηροσ ὁ μεγαλόφρων ποιεῖ· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 571)
  • στοχαζομένη γὰρ τοῦ σαφοῦσ ὀλιγωρεῖ πολλάκισ τοῦ μετρίου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 18 1:6)
  • ὅτῳ δὲ τρόπῳ τὴν εἰσ πᾶν μέροσ ἔκτασιν ἴσχουσιν, ἐγὼ φράσω παράδειγμά τι πρότερον εἰπὼν ἕνεκα τοῦ σαφοῦσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 78)
  • ἐπὶ γὰρ τῶν αἰσθητῶν μόνων, οὐκ ἐπὶ τῶν λόγῳ θεωρητῶν ἔχει δύναμιν, ὡσ αὐτὸσ ὁ Ἐρασίστρατοσ ὁμολογεῖ διαρρήδην, οὐ περὶ τοῦ τοιούτου κενοῦ φάσκων ἑκάστοτε ποιεῖσθαι τὸν λόγον, ὃ κατὰ βραχὺ παρέσπαρται τοῖσ σώμασιν, ἀλλὰ περὶ τοῦ σαφοῦσ καὶ αἰσθητοῦ καὶ ἀθρόου καὶ μεγάλου καὶ ἐναργοῦσ καὶ ὅπωσ ἂν ἄλλωσ ὀνομάζειν ἐθέλῃσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 636)

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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