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

  • τοῦ μὲν φρένασ ἐξέλετο Ζεύσ, ὃσ προλιπὼν σφέτερον τε δόμον σφετέρουσ τε τοκῆασ ᾤχετο, τιμήσων ἀλιτήμενον Εὐρυσθῆα, σχέτλιοσ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 6:5)
  • φάσκον δὲ πολὺ σφέτερον πλούτῳ προφέρειν πατέρα ξανθᾶσ παρέδρου σεμνοῦ Διὸσ εὐρυβία. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 11 4:3)
  • μοῦσαι Πιερίηθεν ἀοιδῇσιν κλείουσαι δεῦτε, Δί’ ἐννέπετε, σφέτερον πατέρ’ ὑμνείουσαι· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 2:1)
  • ἄλλαι δ’ ὑποπρεσβύτεραι γρᾶεσ Θασίου μέλανοσ μεστὸν κεραμευομέναισ κοτύλαισ μεγάλαισ ἔγχεον ἐσ σφέτερον δέμασ οὐδένα κόσμον,4 ἔρωτι βιαζόμεναι μέλανοσ οἴνου ἀκράτου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 573)
  • μηδ’ αὔτωσ ἀλκῇ, πρὶν ἔπεσσί γε πειρηθῆναι, τόνδ’ ἀπαμείρωμεν σφέτερον κτέρασ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 4:12)

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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