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φθόνος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φθόνος φθόνου

Structure: φθον (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. envy, jealousy
  2. malice, grudge, ill will

Declension

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

  • τοῦτον οὖν εἶναι τὸν Φθόνον ἄν τισ εἰκάσειε. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 5:5)
  • οὐ δεῖ τοίνυν πιστεύειν ἀλλοτρίᾳ κρίσει, μᾶλλον δὲ μίσει τοῦ κατηγοροῦντοσ, ἀλλ’ ἑαυτῷ τὴν ἐξέτασιν φυλακτέον τῆσ ἀληθείασ, ἀποδόντα καὶ τῷ διαβάλλοντι τὸν φθόνον καὶ ἐν φανερῷ ποιησάμενον τὸν ἔλεγχον τῆσ ἑκατέρου διανοίασ, καὶ μισεῖν οὕτω καὶ ἀγαπᾶν τὸν δεδοκιμασμένον. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 31:3)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὰ δόγματα διέβαλον αὐτοῦ τινεσ καὶ τοὺσ λόγουσ ἐμέμψαντο πρῶτον μὲν ὁ γνησιώτατοσ αὐτοῦ μαθητὴσ Ἀριστοτέλησ, ἔπειτα οἱ περὶ Κηφισόδωρόν τε καὶ Θεόπομπον καὶ Ζωί̈λον καὶ Ἱπποδάμαντα καὶ Δημήτριον καὶ ἄλλοι συχνοί, οὐ διὰ φθόνον ἢ διὰ φιλαπεχθημοσύνην κωμῳδοῦντεσ ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐξετάζοντεσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 16:2)
  • χρὴ δ’ ἀλαθείασ χάριν αἰνεῖν, φθόνον ἀμφοτέραισιν χερσὶν ἀπωσάμενον, εἴ τισ εὖ πράσσοι βροτῶν. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 14:3)
  • Ἀδράστεια μὲν ἁ Διὸσ παῖσ εἴργοι στομάτων φθόνον· (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. envy

  2. malice

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