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φείδομαι

Non-contract Verb; 이상동사 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φείδομαι φείσομαι

Structure: φείδ (Stem) + ομαι (Ending)

Sense

  1. to spare
  2. to spare, not destroy, to spare, be merciful
  3. to spare, to refrain from using, use sparingly, taking care, refrain from
  4. to be sparing, be thrifty, live thriftily, sparingly
  5. to draw back from, shrink, to spare or cease, forbear

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • ὃσ φείδεται τῆσ βακτηρίασ μισεῖ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ, ὁ δὲ ἀγαπῶν ἐπιμελῶσ παιδεύει. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 13:25)
  • ὃσ φείδεται ρῆμα προέσθαι σκληρόν, ἐπιγνώμων, μακρόθυμοσ δὲ ἀνὴρ φρόνιμοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 17:29)
  • καίτοι τί ἂν ἔγωγε ἀγανακτοίην κατ’ αὐτῆσ, ὅπου μηδὲ τῶν θεῶν φείδεται, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν αὐτῶν διαβάλλει; (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 20:6)
  • ὡσ δαιμόνων οὐδενὸσ ἁνὴρ φείδεται, ἀλλ’ ἐξ ἁμάξησ παρρησιάζεται καὶ μάρπτει ἑξείησ, ὃσ τ’ αἴτιοσ ὅσ τε καὶ οὐκί. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 44:6)
  • δὲ τῷ Κίμωνι οὐδὲ τῆσ Θεμιστοκλέουσ φείδεται κατηγορίασ οὐδὲ τῆσ Ἀλκιβιάδου καὶ Μυρωνίδου,5 ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Κίμωνοσ, καὶ ὁ Κρίτων δ’ αὐτοῦ Κρίτωνοσ, ἡ δὲ Πολιτεία καὶ Σοφοκλέουσ περιέχει καταδρομήν, ὁ δὲ Γοργίασ οὐ μόνον ἀφ’ οὗ τὸ ἐπίγραμμα, ἀλλὰ καὶ Ἀρχελάου τοῦ Μακεδονίασ βασιλέωσ, ὃν οὐ μόνον ἐπονείδιστον γένοσ ἔχειν, ἀλλ’ ὅτι καὶ ἀπέκτεινε τὸν δεσπότην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 1151)

Synonyms

  1. to spare

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Derived

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

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