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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

  • καὶ πρὸσ τὸν εἰπόντα δὲ στοχάζομαι αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τοῦ φείδομαι αὐτοῦ, Μή τι, ἔφη, διήμαρτεσ βαλών; (Lucian, 7:2)
  • τί δῆτα φείδομαι ψυχῆσ ἐμῆσ τῶν φιλτάτων μοι γενόμενοσ παίδων φονεύσ; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:25)
  • "ἦν μὲν οὖν ὁσιώτατον ἄνευ τινὸσ ἀνάγκησ τυχεῖν με παρὰ σοῦ δεομένην οὕτω καλῶν καὶ δικαίων μὴ πείθουσα δὲ τί φείδομαι τῆσ ἐσχάτησ ἐλπίδοσ ; (Plutarch, Lives, chapter 36 1:7)
  • τοιοῦτον γὰρ ἐμαυτὸν τῇ πόλει παρέχω, ὥστε ἰδίᾳ μὲν τῶν <ὄντων> φείδομαι, δημοσίᾳ δὲ λῃτουργῶν ἥδομαι, καὶ οὐκ ἐπὶ τοῖσ περιοῦσι μέγα φρονῶ, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσ εἰσ ὑμᾶσ ἀνηλωμένοισ, ἡγούμενοσ τούτων μὲν αὐτὸσ αἴτιοσ εἶναι, τὴν δ’ οὐσίαν ἑτέρουσ μοι καταλιπεῖν, καὶ διὰ ταύτην μὲν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἀδίκωσ συκοφαντεῖσθαι, δι’ ἐκεῖνα δὲ ὑφ’ ὑμῶν δικαίωσ σῴζεσθαι. (Lysias, Speeches, 22:2)
  • Πρὸσ ταῦθ’ ἡ γυνὴ μικρὸν διαλιποῦσα "καὶ τί γάρ, εἶπεν, ἔτι φείδομαι τῶν ἀπορρήτων Φερώρα τεθνεῶτοσ ἢ σώζουσα τὸν ἀπολέσαντα πάντασ ἡμᾶσ Ἀντίπατρον; (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 838:1)

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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