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φύσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φύσις φύσεως

Structure: φυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fu/w

Sense

  1. origin, birth
  2. nature, quality, property
  3. later, the nature of one's personality: temper, disposition
  4. form, shape
  5. that which is natural: nature
  6. type, kind
  7. Nature, as an entity, especially of productive power
  8. creature

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

  • ὦ φύσισ ἱερὰ καὶ φίλτρα γονέων καὶ γένεσισ φιλόστοργε καὶ τροφεῖα καὶ μητέρων ἀδάμαστα πάθη. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 15:13)
  • καὶ οὐχ οὕτωσ οἱ περὶ τὸν Δανιὴλ λέοντεσ ἦσαν ἄγριοι, οὐδὲ ἡ κατὰ τὸν Μισαὴλ ἐκφλεγομένη κάμινοσ λαβροτάτῳ πυρί, ὡσ ἡ τῆσ φιλοτεκνίασ περιέκαιεν ἐκείνην φύσισ, ὁρῶσαν αὐτῆσ οὕτωσ ποικίλωσ τοὺσ ἑπτὰ υἱοὺσ βασανιζομένουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 16:3)
  • ἢ ποῦ γάρ ἐστιν ἡ πολυθρύλητοσ ἀρετὴ καὶ φύσισ καὶ εἱμαρμένη καὶ τύχη, ἀνυπόστατα καὶ κενὰ πραγμάτων ὀνόματα ὑπὸ βλακῶν ἀνθρώπων τῶν φιλοσόφων ἐπινοηθέντα ; (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 13:3)
  • "πλάσται δὲ καὶ τεχνῖται, τοῦ μὲν Φειδίασ, τοῦ δὲ ἡ φύσισ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 7:2)
  • καίτοι γε ἡ φύσισ τοῖσ πατράσιν τοὺσ παῖδασ μᾶλλον ἢ τοῖσ παισὶν τοὺσ πατέρασ ἐπιτάττει φιλεῖν. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 18:8)

Synonyms

  1. origin

  2. nature

  3. later

  4. form

  5. type

  6. creature

Related

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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