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σφέτερος?

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: spheteros

Principal Part: σφέτερος σφέτερα σφέτερον

Structure: σφετερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: possessive adj. of 3rd pers. pl. σφείς

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 ἅ γε μετ ἀλλήλων ἢ ὑπὲρ ἀλλήλων ἔπαθον ἀναγράψαντες οἱ πρόγονοι ἡμῶν ἐπὶ στήλης χαλκῆς ἀνέθεσαν εἰς τὸ Ὀρέστειον, καὶ νόμον ἐποιήσαντο πρῶτον τοῦτο μάθημα καὶ παίδευμα τοῖς παισὶ τοῖς σφετέροις εἶναι τὴν στήλην ταύτην καὶ τὰ ἐπ αὐτῆς γεγραμμένα διαμνημονεῦσαι. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 5:3)
  • ἔμπα γε μὴν θεμένη κύνεον κέαρ, οὐκέτ ἄνευθεν αὐτοκασιγνήτης πειρήσομαι, εἴ κέ μ ἀέθλῳ χραισμεῖν ἀντιάσῃσιν, ἐπὶ σφετέροις ἀχέουσα παισί: (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 11:20)
  • " Νύμφαι μὲν σφετέροις ἐπὶ γούνασι κοῦρον ἔχοισαι δακρυόεντ ἀγανοῖσι παρεψύχοντ ἐπέεσσιν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 18)
  • κοινῇ δ ἐξαμελουμένων ἑκάστῳ δόξειεν ἂν προσήκειν τοῖς σφετέροις τέκνοις καὶ φίλοις εἰς ἀρετὴν συμβάλλεσθαι, . (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 143:1)
  • ἐπεὶ κεῖνοι μὲν ἀνάγκην ἔμβαλον, οὐ πειθώ, φθέγμασι τοῖς σφετέροις, ὃς δὲ σοφοῖς μύθοις καὶ πλάσμασι καίρια λέξας, παίζων ἐν σπουδῇ, πείθει ἐχεφρονέειν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 3322)

Synonyms

  1. their own

  2. his or her own

  3. your own

Related

명사

형용사

동사

부사

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

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