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οἰκοφθορία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκοφθορία

Structure: οἰκοφθορι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a squandering one's substance

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

  • ἀλλὰ τούτων ἕνεκα, ὦ ἑταῖρε Σιμμία τε καὶ Κέβησ, οἱ ὀρθῶσ φιλόσοφοι ἀπέχονται τῶν κατὰ τὸ σῶμα ἐπιθυμιῶν ἁπασῶν καὶ καρτεροῦσι καὶ οὐ παραδιδόασιν αὐταῖσ ἑαυτούσ, οὔ τι οἰκοφθορίαν τε καὶ πενίαν φοβούμενοι, ὥσπερ οἱ πολλοὶ καὶ φιλοχρήματοι· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 474:2)

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

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