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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

  • οὐκοῦν κλεινὴ καὶ ἔπαινον ἔχουσ’ ἐσ τόδ’ ἀπέρχει κεῦθοσ νεκύων, οὔτε φθινάσιν πληγεῖσα νόσοισ οὔτε ξιφέων ἐπίχειρα λαχοῦσ’, ἀλλ’ αὐτόνομοσ ζῶσα μόνη δὴ θνητῶν Αἵδην καταβήσει. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, anapests1)

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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