γνόφος
προγράψαντες οὖν τά τε θεωρήματα καὶ τὰ ἐπιτάγματα τὰ χρεῖαν ἔχοντα εἰς τὰς ἀποδείξιας αὐτῶν μετὰ ταῦτα γραψοῦμές τοι τὰ προκείμενα → having therefore written at the beginning the theorems and the postulates that are necessary for their proofs, we will then write out for you the propositions
English (LSJ)
later form for δνόφος,
A darkness, Chron.Lind. D.28, Ep.Hebr.12.18, D.Chr. 34.37(pl.), Luc.Peregr.43: pl., storm-clouds, Arist.Mu.391b12.
French (Bailly abrégé)
v. δνόφος.
English (Strong)
akin to νέφος; gloom (as of a storm): blackness.
English (Thayer)
γνόφου, ὁ (for the earlier (and poetic) δνόφος, akin to νέφος (so Alexander Buttmann (1873) Lexil. 2:266; but see Curtius, pp. 704f, 706, cf. 535; Vanicek, p. 1070)), darkness, gloom: Aristotle, de mund. c. 2at the end, p. 392b, 12; Lucian, de mort. Peregr. 43; Dio Chrysostom; the Sept. also for עָנָן a cloud, עֲרָפֶל 'thick cloud,' Trench, § c.).)
Greek Monolingual
γνόφος (AM) (Α και δνόφος)
1. σκοτεινιά
2. πληθ. οἱ γνόφοι
σύννεφα καταιγίδας.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. Ο τ. γνόφος είναι μτγν. τ. του δνόφος, με φωνητική εξέλιξη του δν- σε γν-].
