Ancient Greek

Adjective

ἄφωνος • ‎(áphōnos) m, f ‎(neuter ἄφωνον); second declension

1. voiceless, dumb
2. (of children) unable to speak
3. intestate
4. (ἄφωνα (γράμματα, στοιχεῖα)) the consonants, particularly the mutes

Inflection

Adverb: ἀφώνως ‎(aphṓnōs)

Antonyms

• (mute consonant): ἡμίφωνα ‎(hēmíphōna)

Derived terms

• ἀφωνέω ‎(aphōnéō)
• ἀφώνητος ‎(aphṓnētos)
• ἀφωνία ‎(aphōnía)

References

• ἄφωνος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄφωνος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «ἄφωνος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄφωνος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• ἄφωνος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G880”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • dumb idem, page 256.
  • hushed idem, page 412.
  • inarticulate idem, page 425.
  • mute idem, page 548.
  • silent idem, page 775.
  • speechless idem, page 800.
  • voiceless idem, page 956.