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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

  • διὸ οὐ μιαροφαγοῦμεν. πιστεύοντεσ γὰρ Θεοῦ καθεστάναι τὸν νόμον οἴδαμεν ὅτι κατὰ φύσιν ἡμῖν συμπαθεῖ νομοθετῶν ὁ τοῦ κόσμου κτίστησ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 5:25)
  • καθάπερ γὰρ ἐν βουλετηρίῳ τῇ ἑαυτῆσ ψυχῇ δεινοὺσ ὁρῶσα συμβούλουσ, φύσιν καὶ γένεσιν καὶ φιλοτεκνίαν καὶ τέκνων στρέβλασ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 15:25)
  • ἐγκρατείασ δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ δύνασθαι κατασχεῖν τῷ λογισμῷ τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ὁρμῶσαν ἐπὶ φαύλασ ἀπολαύσεισ καὶ ἡδονάσ, καὶ τὸ καρτερεῖν, καὶ τὸ ὑπομονητικὸν εἶναι τῆσ κατὰ φύσιν ἐνδείασ καὶ λύπησ. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 21:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δέ σοι μετέδοξε βελτίω ταῦτα εἶναι καὶ τὴν μὲν ἐλευθερίαν μακρὰ χαίρειν ἐᾶν, ζηλῶσαι δὲ τὸ ἀγεννέστατον ἐκεῖνο ἰαμβεῖον ὅπου τὸ κέρδοσ, παρὰ φύσιν δουλευτέον, ὁρ́α ὅπωσ μηδεὶσ ἔτι ἀκούσεταί σου ἀναγινώσκοντοσ αὐτό, ἀλλὰ μηδὲ ἄλλῳ παράσχῃσ τῶν τὸν παρόντα σου βίον ὁρώντων ἐπελθεῖν τὰ γεγραμμένα, εὔχου δὲ Ἑρμῇ τῷ χθονίῳ καὶ τῶν ἀκηκοότων πρότερον πολλὴν λήθην κατασκεδάσαι, ἢ δόξεισ τῷ τοῦ Κορινθίου μύθου ταὐτόν τι πεπονθέναι, κατὰ σαυτοῦ ὁ Βελλεροφόντησ γεγραφὼσ τὸ βιβλίον· (Lucian, Apologia 9:2)
  • εὑρ͂ον δὲ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἀστέρων τὴν φορήν, τοὺσ δὴ πλάνητασ ἡμεῖσ καλέομεν ‐ μοῦνοι γὰρ τῶν ἄλλων κινέονται ‐ φύσιν τε αὐτῶν καὶ δυναστείην καὶ ἔργα τὰ ἕκαστοσ ἐπιτελέουσιν. (Lucian, De astrologia, (no name) 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. origin

  2. nature

  3. later

  4. form

  5. type

  6. creature

Related

Similar forms

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