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βραχύς
βραχύς
Ancient Greek
Adjective
βρᾰχῠ́ς • (brakhús) m (feminine βρᾰχεῖᾰ, neuter βρᾰχῠ́); first/third declension
- (of time) short, brief
- (of distance, height) short, small, little
- few
- (of importance) humble, insignificant
- (grammar, of vowels) short
Inflection
| Number | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case/Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | ||||
| Nominative | βρᾰχῠ́ς | βρᾰχεῖᾰ | βρᾰχῠ́ | βρᾰχέε | βρᾰχείᾱ | βρᾰχέε | βρᾰχεῖς / βρᾰχέες | βρᾰχεῖαι | βρᾰχέᾰ | ||||
| Genitive | βρᾰχέως | βρᾰχείᾱς | βρᾰχέως | βρᾰχέοιν | βρᾰχείαιν | βρᾰχέοιν | βρᾰχέων | βρᾰχειῶν | βρᾰχέων | ||||
| Dative | βρᾰχεῖ / βρᾰχέῐ̈ | βρᾰχείᾳ | βρᾰχεῖ / βρᾰ́χέῐ̈ | βρᾰχέοιν | βρᾰχείαιν | βρᾰχέοιν | βρᾰχέσῐ(ν) | βρᾰχείαις | βρᾰχέσῐ(ν) | ||||
| Accusative | βρᾰχῠ́ν | βρᾰχεῖᾰν | βρᾰχῠ́ | βρᾰχέε | βρᾰχείᾱ | βρᾰχέε | βρᾰχεῖς | βρᾰχείᾱς | βρᾰχέᾰ | ||||
| Vocative | βρᾰχῠ́ | βρᾰχεῖᾰ | βρᾰχῠ́ | βρᾰχέε | βρᾰχείᾱ | βρᾰχέε | βρᾰχεῖς / βρᾰχέες | βρᾰχεῖαι | βρᾰχέᾰ | ||||
| Derived forms | Adverb | Comparative | Superlative | ||||||||||
| βρᾰχέως | βρᾰχῠ́τερος | βρᾰχῠ́τᾰτος | |||||||||||
| Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. | ||||||||||||
Derived terms
- βρᾰχεῖᾰ (brakheîa)
- βρᾰχῑ́ων (brakhī́ōn)
- βρᾰχῠδᾰ́κτῠλος (brakhudáktulos)
- τρῐ́βρᾰχῠς (tríbrakhus)
References
- βραχύς in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- βραχύς in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «βραχύς» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «βραχύς» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- βραχύς in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- “G1024”, 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.
- brief idem, page 98.
- compendious idem, page 150.
- cursory idem, page 191.
- diminutive idem, page 225.
- distant idem, page 240.
- faint idem, page 302.
- fleet idem, page 327.
- humble idem, page 409.
- hurried idem, page 411.
- inglorious idem, page 440.
- insensible idem, page 444.
- insignificant idem, page 445.
- jejune idem, page 462.
- languid idem, page 475.
- limited idem, page 492.
- little idem, page 495.
- low idem, page 502.
- meagre idem, page 519.
- mean idem, page 519.
- measured idem, page 521.
- minor idem, page 531.
- minute idem, page 532.
- obscure idem, page 566.
- paltry idem, page 590.
- petty idem, page 609.
- remote idem, page 694.
- scant idem, page 737.
- short idem, page 768.
- slender idem, page 783.
- slight idem, page 784.
- small idem, page 786.
- stunted idem, page 829.
- succinct idem, page 834.
- trifling idem, page 895.
- trivial idem, page 896.
- unimportant idem, page 922.