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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

  • φύσεισ ζῴων καὶ θυμοὺσ θηρίων, πνευμάτων βίασ καὶ διαλογισμοὺσ ἀνθρώπων, διαφορὰσ φυτῶν καὶ δυνάμεισ ριζῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 7:20)
  • παθῶν δὲ φύσεισ εἰσὶν αἱ περιεκτικώταται δύο, ἡδονή τε καὶ πόνοσ. τούτων δὲ ἑκάτερον καὶ περὶ τὸ σῶμα καὶ περὶ τὴν ψυχὴν πέφυκεν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 1:19)
  • τούτων δὲ πάντων ἀρχιτέκτων καὶ δημιουργόσ ἐστιν ὁ νοῦσ, ᾧ δεῖ καθηγεμόνι χρωμένουσ μὴ πάντα ζητεῖν πρὸσ τὰσ ἰδίασ ὀξύτητασ, ἀλλὰ πρὸσ τὰσ τῶν πραγμάτων φύσεισ καὶ μεταπτώσεισ. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 42:2)
  • ταυτὶ οὐ μὰ Δία πρὸσ Νίκανδρον τὸν ποιητὴν φιλοτιμούμενοσ διεξῆλθον, οὐδ̓ ὅπωσ ὑμεῖσ μάθοιτε ὡσ οὐκ ἀμελὲσ γεγένηταί μοι φύσεισ τῶν Λιβυκῶν ἑρπετῶν εἰδέναι· (Lucian, Dipsades 14:1)
  • πληθυντικῶν δὲ καὶ ἑνικῶν ἀλλάττων τὰσ φύσεισ καὶ ἀντικατηγορῶν ταῦτα ἀλλήλων, θηλυκά τ’ ἀρρενικοῖσ καὶ ἀρρενικὰ θηλυκοῖσ καὶ οὐδέτερα τούτων τισὶν συνάπτων, ἐξ ὧν ἡ κατὰ φύσιν ἀκολουθία πλανᾶται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 2 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. origin

  2. nature

  3. later

  4. form

  5. type

  6. creature

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