Mind Understanding

Mente, intelecto; la facultad de percepción, pensamiento, razonamiento moral y comprensión espiritual.

Prudencia, discernimiento y entendimiento práctico; raramente astucia o sagacidad usada para fines egoístas

Mente, entendimiento, disposición — la facultad del discernimiento intelectual y moral; la manera de pensar de una persona. El sustantivo διάνοια se r

Conocimiento, ciencia, saber (logro intelectual, a menudo emparejado con sabiduría); pensamiento, mente (conciencia interior).

φρήν, ἡ, genitive φρενός, plural φρένες, genitive φρενῶν, dative φρεσί: older dative plural φρασί (ν) Refs 6th c.BC+: __I midriff, κραδία φρένα λακτίζει Refs 4th c.BC+; elsewhere always in plural, ἔνθα φρένες ἔρχαται ἀμφ᾽ ἁδινὸν κῆρ Refs 8th c.BC+; τὰς φρένας διάφραγμα εἰς τὸ μέσον αὐτῶν (i.e. τοῦ θώρακος καὶ τοῦ κύτους) τιθέντες Refs 8th c.BC+ __I.2 heart, as seat of the passions, e.g. of fear, τρομέοντο δέ οἱ φρένες ἐντός Refs 8th c.BC+; of joy and grief, φρένα τέρπεσθαι φόρμιγγι Refs; of anger, Refs 8th c.BC+; of courage, ἕνα φρεσὶ θυμὸν ἔχοντες Refs 8th c.BC+, etc.; of bodily appetites, such as hunger, etc., Refs: the shades of the dead are without it, ψυχὴ καὶ εἴδωλον, ἀτὰρ φρένες οὐκ ἔνι πάμπαν Refs (except the shade of Teiresias, Refs 8th c.BC+: so generally in Poets, φρενὸς ἔνδοθεν ἄλγεα κεῖται Refs 6th c.BC+; ἐκ φρενός from one's very heart, ὁ ἐκ φρενὸς λόγος a sincere speech, Refs; οὐκ ἀπ᾽ ἄκρας φρενός not superficially and carelessly, Refs; φῦσαι φρένας to produce a haughty spirit, Refs 5th c.BC+ __I.3 mind, as seat of the mental faculties, perception, thought, ἔγνω ᾗσιν ἐνὶ φ. Refs 8th c.BC+; μετὰ φρεσὶ μερμηρίξαι, βάλλεσθαι, Refs 8th c.BC+; τῷ γὰρ ἐπὶ φρεσί θῆκε put in his mind, suggested it,Refs; ἐπιγνάμπτει φρένας (variant for{νόον}) ἐσθλῶν Refs; ἀνὴρ φρένας ἀφνειός rich (only) in his imagination, Refs 8th c.BC+; ὀρθᾷ, ἐλευθέρᾳ φρενί, Refs 8th c.BC+: plural, wits, Κύκλωπα περὶ φρένας ἤλυθε οἶνος Refs 8th c.BC+: of losing one's wits, φρενῶν ἀφεστάναι, ἐκστῆναι, μεθεστάναι, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔξεδροι, παράκοποι, Refs 5th c.BC+; of persons in their senses, ἐπήβολος φρενῶν Refs 5th c.BC+ (so in later Prose, οἱ φρένας ἔχοντες Refs 5th c.BC+; φρένες, opposed to σῶμα, Refs 5th c.BC+; attributed to animals, μετὰ φρεσὶ γίγνεται ἀλκή Refs 8th c.BC+—The word is not common in early Prose, τίς αὐτῶν νόος ἢ φρή; Refs 1st c.AD+; συμφορὰ τῶν φ., i.e. madness, Refs 5th c.BC+ __I.4 will, purpose, οὔ τι Διὸς βέομαι φρεσίν Refs 8th c.BC+.—In usage there is little or no distinction observable between singular and plural, but the singular is not found in Prose (except Refs 5th c.BC+