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φθόνησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φθόνησις φθόνησεως

Structure: φθονησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a jealous refusal

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

  • ὥστ’ εἰ διομεῖ ἐπὶ Παλλαδίῳ αὐτὸσ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ καὶ τὰ παιδία καὶ καταράσεσθε αὑτοῖσ καὶ τῇ οἰκίᾳ, χείρων τε δόξεισ πολλοῖσ εἶναι, καὶ ἐὰν μὲν ἀποφύγῃ σε, ἐπιωρκηκέναι, ἐὰν δὲ ἕλῃσ, φθονήσει. (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 90:4)
  • ὁ δὲ εἶπεν ὅτι οὐ φθονήσει. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 3 15:4)
  • ἀλλὰ δῆλον ὅτι οὐ φθονήσει Ἱππίασ, ἐάν τι αὐτὸν ἐρωτᾷσ, ἀποκρίνεσθαι. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 4:1)
  • διὰ τί ἄλλοσ ἄλλῳ φθονήσει; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 20:7)

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

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