ἄφρων

ἀ- (a-, “not”) +‎ -φρων (-phrōn, “mind”)

ἄφρων • (áphrōn) m or f (neuter ἄφρον); third declension

1. senseless, crazed, frantic, silly, foolish
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.4.4
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.875
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.761
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Eumenides 377
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 3.220
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 210
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 941
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 4.104
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 5.105
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 1.2.55
   • 485 BCE – 380 BCE, Gorgias, Fragments 6
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 3.1.17
   • 386 BCE – 367 BCE, Plato, Cratylus 392C
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Memorabilia 2.1.5
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Ajax 766
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Hellenica 5.1.19
   • 436 BCE – 338 BCE, Isocrates, To Philip 7
   • 428 BCE – 347 BCE, Plato, Laches 193C
   • 331 CE – 363 CE, Julian, Orations 7.224D

• ἀφραίνω (aphraínō)
• ἀφροσύνη (aphrosúnē)

• “ἄφρων”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἄφρων”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ἄφρων”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• ἄφρων in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἄφρων in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ἄφρων in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• “ἄφρων”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• G878 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • brainless idem, page 93.
  • crazy idem, page 182.
  • foolish idem, page 333.
  • giddy idem, page 359.
  • idiot idem, page 413.
  • imbecile idem, page 417.
  • insane idem, page 443.
  • senseless idem, page 752.
  • silly idem, page 776.
  • stupid idem, page 830.
  • witless idem, page 985.