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φόβος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φόβος φόβου

Structure: φοβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/bomai

Sense

  1. fear, terror, alarm, fright, panic
  2. The act of fleeing: flight, retreat
  3. awe, reverence
  4. That which causes fear: terror

Declension

Second 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

  • φόβοι δὲ καὶ ἠχὼ νυκτερινή, ἐπιπίπτων φόβοσ ἐπ̓ ἀνθρώπουσ, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 4:13)
  • διεξέλθοι δὲ διὰ σώματοσ αὐτοῦ βέλοσ, ἀστραπαὶ δὲ ἐν διαίταισ αὐτοῦ. περιπατήσαισαν ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ φόβοι, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 20:25)
  • τότε παραχρῆμα φαντασίαι μὲν ὀνείρων δεινῶσ ἐξετάραξαν αὐτούσ, φόβοι δὲ ἐπέστησαν ἀδόκητοι, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 18:17)
  • καίτοι, ὦ ἄνδρεσ, εἰ οἱ ἀφειμένοι τοῦ στρατεύεσθαι ἕνεκα τοῦ βουλεύεσθαι ὑπὲρ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐν τῇ τῶν στρατιωτῶν τάξει διέτριβον, ἆρ’ ὑμῖν δοκοῦσι μικροὶ καὶ οἱ τυχόντεσ φόβοι τότε τὴν πόλιν κατασχεῖν; (Lycurgus, Speeches, 53:1)
  • τὰ πάθη φύσεισ οὐ γὰρ ὀρθότητι δοξῶν οὐδὲ φαυλότητι δήπου τοῖσ μὲν ἀλκαὶ καὶ ὁρμαὶ πρὸσ τὰ φαινόμενα δεινὰ παρίστανται, τοῖσ δ’ ἀμήχανοι πτοῖαι καὶ φόβοι τῆσ ψυχῆσ· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 11 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. fear

  2. The act of fleeing

  3. awe

  4. That which causes fear

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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