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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φόβος φόβω φόβοι
Genitive φόβου φόβοιν φόβων
Dative φόβῳ φόβοιν φόβοις
Accusative φόβον φόβω φόβους
Vocative φόβε φόβω φόβοι

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

  • ἀνδρεία δ’ ἐστὶν ἀρετὴ τοῦ θυμοειδοῦσ, καθ’ ἣν δυσέκπληκτοί εἰσιν ὑπὸ φόβων τῶν περὶ θάνατον. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 9:1)
  • δειλία δ’ ἐστὶ κακία τοῦ θυμοειδοῦσ, καθ’ ἣν ἐκπλήττονται ὑπὸ φόβων, καὶ μάλιστα τῶν περὶ θάνατον. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 11:3)
  • δειλίασ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ ὑπὸ τῶν τυχόντων φόβων εὐκίνητον εἶναι, καὶ μάλιστα τῶν περὶ θάνατον καὶ τὰσ σωματικὰσ πηρώσεισ, καὶ τὸ ὑπολαμβάνειν κρεῖττον εἶναι ὁπωσοῦν σωθῆναι ἢ τελευτῆσαι καλῶσ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 32:2)
  • ‐ ἀλλὰ φόβων πίστισ ἅδε πρώτα. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 22)
  • "ἐμπαθεῖσ πρὸσ τὰ θεῖα δι’ ἐλπίδων ἅμα καὶ φόβων καταστήσαντεσ. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 31 1:8)
  • τὸν δράκοντα δέ, ὃσ νῦν ἐξοιστρεῖ αὐτὴν φοβῶν, τὰ νεογνὰ ἐπειδὰν τεχθῇ, αὐτίκα μέτεισι καὶ τιμωρήσει τῇ μητρί. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, iris and poseidon, chapter 25)

Synonyms

  1. fear

  2. The act of fleeing

  3. awe

  4. That which causes fear

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