Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τὴν γῆν ὅταν νομίσωσι τὴν τῶν πολεμίων εἶναι σφετέραν, τὴν δὲ σφετέραν τῶν πολεμίων, πόρον δὲ τὰσ ναῦσ ἀπορίαν δὲ τὸν πόρον. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, trochees 3:5)
  • Παυσανίασ γὰρ ὁ Κλεομβρότου Λακεδαιμόνιοσ ἐλευθερώσασ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἀπὸ τῶν Μήδων μετὰ Ἑλλήνων τῶν ἐθελησάντων συνάρασθαι τοῦ κινδύνου καὶ τῆσ μάχησ, ἣ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἐγένετο, θύσασ ἐν τῇ Πλαταιέων ἀγορᾷ ἱερὰ Διὶ ἐλευθερίῳ καὶ ξυγκαλέσασ πάντασ τοὺσ συμμάχουσ, ἀπεδίδου Πλαταιεῦσι γῆν καὶ πόλιν τὴν σφετέραν ἔχοντασ αὐτονόμουσ οἰκεῖν, στρατεῦσαί τε μηδένα ποτὲ ἀδίκωσ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ μηδ’ ἐπὶ δουλείᾳ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 36 1:2)
  • δεύτερα δὲ ἡμᾶσ οἱᾶ ἔδρασαν εἰσ τὴν γῆν τὴν σφετέραν ἀποβάντασ, ὅτε Δᾶτίσ τε καὶ Ἀρταφέρνησ ἐστρατήγουν, ἐπίστασθέ που πάντεσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 41 3:6)
  • πράξαντεσ δὲ ταῦτα, καὶ δόντεσ ἀλλήλοισ πίστεισ καὶ ὁρ́κουσ μεγάλουσ, ἠξίουν σφᾶσ αὐτοὺσ προτάξαντεσ πρὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἁπάντων ἀπαντῆσαι τοῖσ βαρβάροισ Μαραθῶνάδε, νομίσαντεσ τὴν σφετέραν αὐτῶν ἀρετὴν ἱκανὴν εἶναι τῷ πλήθει τῷ ἐκείνων ἀντιτάξασθαι· (Andocides, Speeches, 175:2)

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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