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σφέτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφέτερος σφέτερᾱ σφέτερον

Structure: σφετερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: possessive adj. of 3rd pers. pl. sfei/s

Sense

  1. their own, their, their own feelings, their own business, their own people
  2. his or her own, his, her
  3. your own, your
  4. thine own, tuus
  5. mine own, meus
  6. our own, noster

Examples

  • καὶ τὰσ εὐκτεάνουσ κατὰ κλῆρον Ιαὄνιον πολυάνδρουσ Ἑλλάνων ἐκράτει σφετέραισ φρεσίν. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, epode1)
  • κοὔπω τὸν μέσατον δρόμον ἄνυεν ἁρ́μα Σελάνασ, τοὺσ δ’ ἁλιεῖσ ἤγειρε φίλοσ πόνοσ, ἐκ βλεφάρων δὲ ὕπνον ἀπωσάμενοι σφετέραισ φρεσὶν ἤρεθον αὐδάν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 11)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἐμοὶ ταῦτα πρώτῳ πολεμίοισ ὁμόσε χωρήσαντι συνέβη παθεῖν, ἅπασι δ’ ὡσ εἰπεῖν, ὅσοι μάχασ παρακεκινδυνευμένασ σὺν ἐλάττοσι ταῖσ σφετέραισ δυνάμεσι πρὸσ μείζονασ τὰσ τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἐποιήσαντο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 9, chapter 30 1:1)
  • τῇ δὲ ὑστεραίᾳ τοὺσ μὲν Κυπρίουσ ξὺν ταῖσ σφετέραισ ναυσὶ καὶ Ἀνδρομάχῳ τῷ ναυάρχῳ κατὰ τὸν λιμένα τὸν ἐκ Σιδῶνοσ φέροντα ἐκέλευσεν ἐφορμεῖν τῇ πόλει, τοὺσ δὲ Φοίνικασ κατὰ τὸν ἐπέκεινα τοῦ χώματοσ τὸν πρὸσ Αἴγυπτον ἀνέχοντα, ἵνα καὶ αὐτῷ ἡ σκηνὴ ἦν. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 20 10:2)
  • πάντεσ μὲν κοινωνούντων τῆσ τῶν ἀρχόντων αἱρέσεωσ ὁπόσοιπερ ἂν ὅπλα ἱππικὰ ἢ πεζικὰ τιθῶνται καὶ πολέμου κεκοινωνήκωσιν ἐν ταῖσ σφετέραισ αὐτῶν τῆσ ἡλικίασ δυνάμεσιν· (Plato, Laws, book 6 15:2)

Synonyms

  1. their own

  2. his or her own

  3. your own

Related

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

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