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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

  • ἡ δ’ ἐλευθεριότησ καὶ τὸ μηδὲν ὀλίγῃ χειρὶ μηδὲ φειδομένῃ χαρίζεσθαι στρατιώταισ καὶ φίλοισ ἀρχήν τε λαμπρὰν ἐπὶ τὸ ἰσχύειν αὐτῷ παρέσχε, καὶ μεγάλου γενομένου τὴν δύναμιν ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἐπῆρεν, ἐκ μυρίων ἄλλων ἁμαρτημάτων ἀνατρεπομένην. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 4 3:2)
  • εἰσ τὸ αὐτό δεῦρ’ ἴδε, καὶ θάμβησον ὑπ’ ὀφρύσι κείμενον οἶκτον καὶ θυμόν, βλεφάρων καὶ πυρόεσσαν ἴτυν, καὶ μητρὸσ παλάμην ἀλόχοιό τε πικρὰ παθούσησ ὁρμῇ φειδομένῃ πρὸσ φόνον ἑλκομένην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 1401)
  • ἠνίδε καὶ χέρσου τὸ γεωτόμον ὅπλον ἐρέσσει καὶ τὸν ὑπουθατίαν μόσχον ἄγει δάμαλισ, βούταν μὲν τρομέουσα διώκτορα, τὸν δὲ μένουσα νήπιον, ἀμφοτέρων εὔστοχα φειδομένη. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 1011)
  • Μικκὴ καὶ μελανεῦσα Φιλαίνιον, ἀλλὰ σελίνων οὐλοτέρη, καὶ μνοῦ χρῶτα τερεινοτέρη, καὶ κεστοῦ φωνεῦσα μαγώτερα, καὶ παρέχουσα πάντα, καὶ αἰτῆσαι πολλάκι φειδομένη· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1211)
  • ἀλλὰ σὺ νηπιάχου δμωόσ, κόνι, μήποτε βρίθειν ὀστέα, τοῦ διετοῦσ φειδομένη Κόρακοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 632 1:1)

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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