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καταφαίνω

kataphaino

declare, make known

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Where it lives

Letter 8 1 · 15.04/10k
Minos 1 · 3.51/10k
To Nicocles 1 · 3.32/10k
Archidamus 2 · 3.27/10k
Sophist 4 · 2.5/10k
Hippias Major 2 · 2.37/10k
Alcibiades 2 1 · 2.34/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Epinomis 1 · 1.59/10k
De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
Charmides 1 · 1.2/10k
Economics 2 · 1.12/10k

Densest 12 of 31 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

καταφαίνω · kataphainō — LSJ

declare, make known

declare, make known, τοῦτον λόγον Pi. N. 10.11.

II become visible, appear

Pass., fut. -φᾰνήσομαι dub. in E. Fr. 781.65 (lyr.):— become visible, appear, h.Ap. 431, Hdt. 7.51, Th. 5.6, E. l.c., Plu. Luc. 27:—also intr. in Act., Orph. A. 370, 762.

2 to be clear, plain, seem, appear, well knew

to be clear, plain, τῷ Ὀτάνῃ μᾶλλον κατεφαίνετο τὸ πρῆγμα Hdt. 3.69, cf. Plu. Aud. 2.40c, QConv. 682a; seem, appear, ὥς γε κ. ἐμοί Pl. Phlb. 16c; ὅτι μοι ἄτοπʼ ἄττα κ. περὶ σωφροσύνης Id. Chrm. 172c, cf. Plu. Praec. 2.802f, etc.: also c. inf., ὡς ἐμοὶ καταφαίνεται εἶναι Hdt. 1.58, cf. 6.13; κατεφάνη τῷ Δαρείῳ τεχνάζειν, i. e. Darius well knew that he was evading, Id. 3.130; ταὐτόν σοι πάθος -φαίνομαι πεπονθέναι Pl. Lg. 712e; πάντων μοι μετριώτατοί γε εῖναι κατεφάνησαν ib. 811d: c. part., ὀρθῶς ἔ

In the wild

κατεφαίνετο · katephaineto Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 5)
κατεφαίνετο · katephaineto Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Narr.24 (DIORISIS sentence 57)
καταφαίνεται · kataphainetai Herodotus, Histories 1.58.1 (DIORISIS sentence 365)
κατεφάνη · katephanē Herodotus, Histories 3.130.2 (DIORISIS sentence 3864)
κατεφαίνετο · katephaineto Herodotus, Histories 3.53.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3259)
κατεφαίνετο · katephaineto Herodotus, Histories 3.69.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3388)

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