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φθίσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φθίσις φθίσεως

Structure: φθισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fqi/w, fqi/sw

Sense

  1. decline, decay
  2. atrophy
  3. consumption (disease)
  4. waning of the moon
  5. contraction of the eye

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

  • ὡρ́α λέγειν αὐτοῖσ ὅτι καὶ φθίσισ γέγονεν ἀνθρώπῳ πρὸσ εὐεξίαν καὶ ποδάγρα πρὸσ ὠκύτητα καὶ οὐκ ἂν ἦν Ἀχιλλεὺσ κομήτησ, εἰ μὴ φαλακρὸσ Θερσίτησ. (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 13 7:1)
  • καὶ δῆλον τὸ προσενεχθὲν τῇ μὲν νούσῳ τροφή τε καὶ αὔξησισ γενόμενον, τῷ δὲ σώματι φθίσισ τε καὶ ἀρρωστίη. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , vi.2)
  • αὗται μὲν οὖν αἱ δύο κινήσεισ ἁπλαῖ καὶ πρῶται, σύνθετοι δ’ ἐξ αὐτῶν αὔξησίσ τε καὶ φθίσισ, ὅταν ἐξ ἐλάττονόσ τι μεῖζον ἢ ἐκ μείζονοσ ἔλαττον γένηται φυλάττον τὸ οἰκεῖον εἶδοσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 212)
  • Ἢν ἕλκοσ ἐξ ἀποστάσιοσ ἐν τῷ πνεύμονι γένηται, ἢ ἐκ βηχὸσ χρονίησ, ἢ ἀναγωγῆσ αἵματοσ, καὶ ἀναβήσσῃ πῦον, πύη, καὶ φθίσισ κικλήσκεται· ἢν δὲ θώρηξ ἢ πλευρὸν ἐμπυήσῃ, ἐπανάγηται δὲ διὰ τοῦ πνεύμονοσ, ἐμπύη ἥδε τοὔνομα. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 141)
  • Ἐπὶ δὲ σμικρῷ ὄγκῳ μετὰ σκληρίησ, ἀντιτυπίησ , ἀπονίη· διὰ τόδε πολλὸν χρόνον ζῶσι οἵδε· εἰ δὲ τοῦ πάθεοσ ἥττηντο, χρεὼν ὕδρωψ, ἢ φθίσισ, καὶ τοῦ σκήνεοσ τηκεδὼν ἐπιγίγνεται· ἀτὰρ ἠδὲ οὗτοσ ὁ τρόποσ τοῦ ὀλέθρου σφέασ τοῦ ζῆν ἐξάγει. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 296)

Synonyms

  1. consumption

  2. waning of the moon

  3. contraction of the eye

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