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φοβερότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοβερότης φοβερότητος

Structure: φοβεροτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from fobero/s

Sense

  1. terribleness

Declension

Third declension

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

  • ἀκμάζοντοσ δὲ πρὸσ μὲν πόνουσ τοὺσ πολεμικούσ, ἡδὺν δ’ εἶναι δοκεῖν μετὰ φοβερότητοσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 5 11:4)
  • ἑκατέρωθεν γὰρ βάθοσ κρημνῶν ὑποκέχηνε τῇ φοβερότητι πᾶσαν εὐτολμίαν ἐκπλῆξαι δυνάμενον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 323:3)

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

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