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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

  • ἀτὰρ εἰπέ μοι, τίσ ἡ λιθοποιὸσ αὕτη Μέδουσα ἡμῖν ἐστιν καὶ πόθεν, ὡσ καὶ ἡμεῖσ ἴδοιμεν οὐ γάρ, οἶμαι, φθονήσεισ ἡμῖν τῆσ θέασ οὐδὲ ζηλοτυπήσεισ, εἰ μέλλοιμεν πλησίον που καὶ αὐτοὶ παραπεπηγέναι σοι ἰδόντεσ. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 1:4)
  • φορᾶσ γέ τοι φθόνησισ οὐ γενήσεται. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 6:9)
  • 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)

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

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