δῆλος
Etym. deriv. uncertain
I. properly, "visible, conspicuous", Il.
II. "clear" to the mind, "manifest, evident", Od.: —δῆλός εἰμι with partic., δῆλός ἐστιν ἀλγεινῶς φέρων i. e. "it is clear" that he takes it ill, Soph.; δῆλοί εἰσι μὴ ἐπιτρέψοντες "it is clear that they will" not permit, Thuc.; also, acc. to our idiom, δῆλόν [ἐστιν] ὅτι.., v. δηλονότι.
3. δῆλον itself is used like δηλαδή, as αὐτὸς πρὸς αὑτοῦ: δῆλον, all by himself, "'tis manifest", Soph.:—also, δῆλον δέ to introduce a proof, Thuc.