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φυτεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φυτεία

Structure: φυτει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: futeu/w

Sense

  1. a planting
  2. the growth of a plant
  3. a plant

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ θήσομαι Σαμάρειαν εἰσ ὀπωροφυλάκιον ἀγροῦ καὶ εἰσ φυτείαν ἀμπελῶνοσ καὶ κατασπάσω εἰσ χάοσ τοὺσ λίθουσ αὐτῆσ καὶ τὰ θεμέλια αὐτῆσ ἀποκαλύψω. (Septuagint, Prophetia Michaeae 1:6)
  • ἐξῆγε δὲ τοὺσ Συρακουσίουσ πολλάκισ ὡσ ἐπὶ στρατείαν κατὰ φυτείαν, ὅπωσ ἥ τε χώρα βελτίων γένηται γεωργουμένη καὶ μὴ χείρονεσ αὐτοὶ σχολάζοντεσ. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 21)
  • πῶσ ἂν οὖν, ἔφην ἐγώ, τὰ μὲν ἀμφὶ τὸν σπόρον ἐπισταίμην, τὰ δ’ ἀμφὶ τὴν φυτείαν οὐκ ἐπίσταμαι; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 19 2:3)
  • καὶ ὁπόσα δὲ θεραπείασ δεῖται ἡ γῆ, ὑγροτέρα γε οὖσα πρὸσ τὸν σπόρον ἢ ἁλμωδεστέρα πρὸσ φυτείαν, καὶ ταῦτα γιγνώσκουσι μὲν πάντεσ καὶ ὡσ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐξάγεται τάφροισ καὶ ὡσ ἡ ἅλμη κολάζεται μιγνυμένη πᾶσι τοῖσ ἀνάλμοισ, καὶ ὑγροῖσ τε καὶ ξηροῖσ· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 20 13:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐμοὶ ἡ τοῦ ὑέοσ τουτουί̈, εἴτε φυτείαν εἴτε παιδοποιίαν δεῖ αὐτὴν ὀνομάζειν, πάντων ῥᾴστη γέγονεν, ἡ δὲ τροφὴ δύσκολόσ τε καὶ ἀεὶ ἐν φόβῳ περὶ αὐτοῦ δεδιότι. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. a planting

  2. the growth of a plant

  3. a plant

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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