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ἐμφερές (empheres)

ἐμφερές is an Ancient Greek form of ἐμφερής, meaning “resembling”. It is the vocative singular masculine adjective.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 6.3.83: … ίλων, σοφός, ἀδοξότερος μικρῷ δʼ. ὁ τὴν πήραν ἔχων; πήρας μὲν οὖν τρεῖς· ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖνος ῥῆμά τι ἐφθέγξατʼ οὐδὲν ἐμφερές, μὰ τὸν Δία, τῷ γνῶθι σαυτόν, οὐδὲ τοῖς βοωμένοις τούτοις, ὑπὲρ δὲ ταῦθʼ ὁ προσαιτῶν καὶ ῥυπῶν· τὸ γὰρ ὑποληφ …

Plutarch, Antony 4.1: … ἀγεννὴς καὶ πλάτος μετώπου καὶ γρυπότης μυκτῆρος ἐδόκει τοῖς γραφομένοις καὶ πλαττομένοις Ἡρακλέους προσώποις ἐμφερὲς ἔχειν τὸ ἀρρενωπόν. ἦν δὲ καὶ λόγος παλαιὸς Ἡρακλείδας εἶναι τοὺς Ἀντωνίους, ἀπʼ Ἄντωνος, παιδὸς Ἡρακλέους, γ …

All forms of ἐμφερής (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.