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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 γὰρ ἰσχύσ σου δικαιοσύνησ ἀρχή, καὶ τὸ πάντων σε δεσπόζειν πάντων φείδεσθαι ποιεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 12:16)
  • ἐκ πάσησ θλίψεωσ αὐτῶν. οὐ πρέσβυσ οὐδὲ ἄγγελοσ, ἀλλ̓ αὐτὸσ Κύριοσ ἔσωσεν αὐτοὺσ διὰ τὸ ἀγαπᾶν αὐτοὺσ καὶ φείδεσθαι αὐτῶν. αὐτὸσ ἐλυτρώσατο αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἀνέλαβεν αὐτοὺσ καὶ ὕψωσεν αὐτοὺσ πάσασ τὰσ ἡμέρασ τοῦ αἰῶνοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 63:9)
  • ἐν γὰρ δὴ τούτῳ πείθει τοὺσ Ἀθηναίουσ τῶν μὲν ἀλλοτρίων μὴ ἐπιθυμεῖν, ἐπὶ δὲ τοῖσ παροῦσι στέργειν, καὶ τῶν μὲν μικρῶν πόλεων ὡσπερανεὶ κτημάτων φείδεσθαι, τοὺσ δὲ συμμάχουσ τε καὶ εὐεργεσίαισ πειρᾶσθαι κατέχειν, ἀλλὰ μὴ ταῖσ ἀνάγκαισ μηδὲ ταῖσ βίαισ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 72)
  • ἀρχομένου δὲ πίθου καὶ λήγοντοσ κορέσασθαι, μεσσόθι φείδεσθαι· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 40:14)
  • φιλανθρωπίᾳ χρῆσθαι πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ ἔτι καὶ φείδεσθαι καὶ ἀνέχεσθαι ὅσον αὐτίκα μελλήσοντα πείσεσθαι τὰ ὕστατα; (Lucian, Phalaris, book 1 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. to spare

Related

Derived

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

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