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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

  • διατί γὰρ τῆσ φύσεωσ κεχαρισμένησ καλλίστην τὴν τοῦδε τοῦ ζώου σαρκοφαγίαν βδελύττῃ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 5:7)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἀνόητον τοῦτο δοκεῖ, τὸ μὴ ἀπολαύειν τῶν χωρὶσ ὀνείδουσ ἡδέων, καὶ ἄδικον ἀποστρέφεσθαι τὰσ τῆσ φύσεωσ χάριτασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 5:8)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ καὶ περὶ τῆσ φύσεωσ καὶ τῆσ συνηθείασ καὶ τῶν τῆσ ἀρετῆσ ἠθῶν τὰ τῆσ ἀδελφότητοσ αὐτοῖσ φίλτρα συναυξόντων, ἀνέσχοντο διὰ τὴν εὐσέβειαν τοὺσ ἀδελφοὺσ οἱ ὑπολελειμμένοι, τοὺσ καταικιζομένουσ ὁρῶντεσ μέχρι θανάτου βασανιζομένουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 13:27)
  • αἱ θυγατέρεσ Ἐρεχθέωσ τῷ καλῷ τῆσ ἀρετῆσ τὸ θῆλυ τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἐνίκησαν, καὶ τὸ τῆσ φύσεωσ ἀσθενὲσ ἔπανδρον ἐποίησεν ἡ πρὸσ τὸ θρέψαν ἔδαφοσ φιλοστοργία. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 37:1)
  • ἦν γὰρ ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆσ βεβαιότατα δὴ φύσεωσ ἰσχὺν δηλώσασ καὶ διαφερόντωσ τι ἐσ αὐτὸ μᾶλλον ἑτέρου ἄξιοσ θαυμάσαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 42)

Synonyms

  1. origin

  2. nature

  3. later

  4. form

  5. type

  6. creature

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