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φθιτός?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: phthitos

Principal Part: φθιτός φθιτή φθιτόν

Structure: φθιτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: φθίνω의 분사형

Sense

  1. the dead
  2. liable to perish

Declension

First/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

  • τὰ γὰρ φθιτῶν τοῖς ὁρῶσι κόσμος. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, strophe 33)
  • πῶς γάρ, ὁ μὲν παρὰ θεοῖς, ὁ δὲ παρὰ τοῖς φθιτοῖς ὤν· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 8:4)
  • αἲ Λίνον μὲν ἐπ εὐτυχεῖ μολπᾷ Φοῖβος ἰαχεῖ τὸν κάλλει φθιτόν, κιθάραν ἐλαύνων πλήκτρῳ χρυσέῳ: (Euripides, Heracles, choral, strophe 11)
  • αἰαῖ, τίνα στεναγμὸν ἢ γόον ἢ φθιτῶν ᾠδάν, ἢ τὸν Αἵδα χορὸν ἀχήσω· (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric8)
  • τοὺς οὖν πάλαι σοφοὺς καὶ λογίους ἄμικτα θέσθαι τὰ ἐπίγεια καὶ τὰ οὐράνια χρὴ νομίζειν, οὐ τοῖς τόποις ὥσπερ ἐπὶ ζυγοῦ πρὸς τὰ κάτω καὶ ἄνω βλέποντας, ἀλλὰ τῇ διαφορᾷ τῶν δυνάμεων τὰ μὲν θερμὰ καὶ λαμπρὰ καὶ ταχέα καὶ κοῦφα τῇ θείᾳ καὶ ἀιδίῳ φύσει προσνέμοντας, τὰ δὲ σκοτεινὰ καὶ ψυχρὰ καὶ βραδέα φθιτῶν καὶ ἐνέρων οὐκ εὐδαίμονα κλῆρον ἀποφαίνοντας. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 221)

Synonyms

  1. the dead

  2. liable to perish

Related

명사

형용사

동사

Derived

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

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