τυφλός, ή, όν,
blind, once in [
Refs 8th c.BC+], frequently in other writers; τυφλὸς ἐκ δεδορκότος [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. Ἄρης, Πλοῦτος, [
Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τ. ὄψις, ὀφθαλμοί, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
blind to, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; but τ. τῆς προνοίας
lacking vision of the future, [
Refs]; τὰ τ. τοῦ σώματος, i. e. one's
back, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; καὶ τυφλῷ γε δῆλον even a
blind man can see that, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
2) of the limbs of the blind, τ. πούς [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; [βάκτρον], τοξεύματα, [
Refs]
3)
metaphorically of the other senses and the mind, τ. ἦτορ [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
4)
metaphorically, τ. ὄλβος [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II) of things,
dark, dim, obscure, ἐλπίδες [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. σπιλάδες
blind rocks, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
hidden, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; τ. κίνημα, of revolution, [
Refs]
II.2) of passages or apertures,
blind, closed, with no outlet, τοῦ ἐντέρου τυφλόν τι, of the
intestinum caecum (τὸ τυφλόν in [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; τ. τρῆμα the
foramen caecum (stylo-mastoid), [
Refs 1st c.BC+]; τ. ῥύμη a
blind alley, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; of rivers and harbours,
choked with mud, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; of the halcyon's nest,
closed, tight, [
Refs]; τυφλοὶ ὄζοι branches
without buds or
eyes, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
dark, trackless, [
Refs]; τ. μώλωψ a wound
without an outlet, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; τὸ τ. ἅμμα καλούμενον the so-called
unescapable knot, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of a hook (compare τυφλάγκιστρον),
blunt, [
Refs 4th c.AD+]
III)
adverb, πρὸς τὸ ὠφέλιμον τυφλῶς ἔχειν to be
blind to it, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]. [ῠ by nature, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: perhaps cf. Gothic
daufs, O[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
déaf 'stupid', Olr.
dub 'black'.]