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διαφθορεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διαφθορεύς διαφθορέως

Structure: διαφθορευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from diafqei/rw

Sense

  1. a corrupter

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὅστισ γὰρ νόμων διαφθορεύσ ἐστιν σφόδρα που δόξειεν ἂν νέων γε καὶ ἀνοήτων ἀνθρώπων διαφθορεὺσ εἶναι. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 65:1)
  • διαβολῆσ μὲν γὰρ ἕνεκα κἂν Σωκράτησ εἰή τῶν νέων διαφθορεὺσ καὶ πάντων τῶν ἐν ἀνθρώποισ νομιζομένων ἀνατροπεύσ, ἀπὸ τῶν θεῶν ἀρχόμενοσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 59:2)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ πρώτοισ τὸ λῃστρικὸν ἦθοσ ἐπεδείξατο εὐθὺσ κατὰ τὴν πρώτην εἴσοδον τῇ παραβάσει τούτου τοῦ ἔθουσ ὥσπερ οὐχ ἱερεὺσ εἰσεληλυθὼσ ἀλλὰ διαφθορεὺσ τῶν ἱερῶν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 8 13:7)

Synonyms

  1. a corrupter

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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