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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

  • πρῶτον μὲν οὖν τῆσ οἰκοφθορίασ ταῖσ πόλεσιν ἐδόκει αὐχμῷ ἡ γῆ κακωθεῖσα ἄρξαι, ἡνίκα οὔτ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσ δένδρεσι καρπὸσ οὐδεὶσ ὡραῖοσ γενέσθαι διέμεινεν, ἀλλ’ ὠμοὶ κατέρρεον, οὔθ’ ὁπόσα σπερμάτων ἀνέντα βλαστοὺσ ἀνθήσειεν ἑώσ στάχυοσ ἀκμῆσ τοὺσ κατὰ νόμον ἐξεπλήρου χρόνουσ, οὔτε πόα κτήνεσιν ἐφύετο διαρκήσ, τῶν τε ναμάτων τὰ μὲν οὐκέτι πίνεσθαι σπουδαῖα ἦν, τὰ δ’ ὑπελίμπανε θέρουσ, τὰ δ’ εἰσ τέλοσ ἀπεσβέννυτο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 23 3:1)

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

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