ἀμαυρ-ός [ᾰμ], ά, όν
(ός, όν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 1 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator)] Refs 5th c.BC+], dark, i.e.,
__1 hardly seen, dim, faint, εἴδωλον ἀ. shadowy spectre, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.824; νέκυες 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 68] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἴχνος faint footstep, of an old man, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 124, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the sun, ἀχλυώδης καὶ ἀμαυρότερος obscure, glimmering, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 367a21 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of a comet's tail,[[ [prev. work] 343b12, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.21. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 having no light, νύξ[[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 32; ὄψις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 5.26] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—hence, blind, sightless, of man, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1018; ἕπεο.. ἀμαυρῷ κώλῳ [prev. work] 182; ψαύσας ἀμαυραῖς χερσίν [prev. work] 1639] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀμαυρά or ἀμαυρῶς βλέπειν dimly, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Acut. (Sp.)” 55, “Anthologia Graeca” 12.254 (2nd c.AD: Strato Epigrammaticus), compare “IG” 14.2111. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of sound, dim, faint, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 802a19. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically,
__II.1 dim, faint, uncertain, κληδών[[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 853; σθένος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 231] Refs 5th c.BC+]; δόξα, ἡδοναί, ἐλπίς, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 4, 2.125c, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus cited in 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; ζῷα-ότερα creatures of obscure kind, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 608a11] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐντομαὶ -ότεραι less conspicuous notches, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.2.5, compare 6.7.1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]