Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἂν γὰρ ἐν ταὐτῷ συμμένωσι, καὶ πολεμούντων ἧττον καταφρονήσειν Καίσαρα, καὶ φείσεσθαι μᾶλλον δεομένων. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 59 3:2)
  • φείσεσθαι γὰρ οὐδενόσ, ἀλλ’ ἀποσφάξειν ὃν ἂν ἔξω λάβῃ τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 13 2:4)
  • σφῶν μέντοι φείσεσθαι τὸ μέροσ νειμαμένων πρὸσ Καίσαρα. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 3 2:9)
  • οὐ γὰρ φείσεσθαι μετὰ Μαριάμμην καὶ τοὺσ ἐξ ἐκείνησ ἑτέρου τινόσ, ὥστε ἄμεινον εἶναι φεύγειν ὡσ πορρωτάτω τοῦ θηρίου. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 826:4)
  • "ὡσ ἐβουλήθησ, ἔγραψά σου τῷ πατρὶ καὶ τὰσ ἐπιστολὰσ ἐκείνασ ἔπεμψα πεπεισμένη τὸν βασιλέα μὴ φείσεσθαι τῆσ ἀδελφῆσ, ὅταν ἀναγνῷ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 900:3)

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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