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φθινάς

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φθινάς φθινάδος

Structure: φθιναδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fqi/nw

Sense

  1. waning
  2. causing to decline, wasting

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

  • οὐδενὸσ γὰρ οὕτω θεάματοσ ἐρασθεὶσ ὁ Ῥωμαίων δῆμοσ ὡσ τοῦ Τιγελλῖνον ἰδεῖν ἀπαγόμενον, οὐδὲ παυσάμενοσ ἐν πᾶσι θεάτροισ καὶ σταδίοισ αἰτούμενοσ ἐκεῖνον, ἐπεπλήχθη διαγράμματι τοῦ αὐτοκράτοροσ Τιγελλῖνον μὲν οὐ πολὺν ἔτι βιώσεσθαι φάσκοντοσ χρόνον ὑπὸ φθινάδοσ νόσου δαπανώμενον, ἐκείνουσ δὲ παραιτουμένου μὴ διαγριαίνειν μηδὲ τυραννικὴν ποιεῖν τὴν ἡγεμονίαν. (Plutarch, Galba, chapter 17 4:1)
  • πάλιν δ’ αὔξονται μέχρι πανσελήνου, καὶ μειοῦνται πάλιν ἑώσ διχοτόμου φθινάδοσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 5 16:10)

Synonyms

  1. waning

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

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