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

  • Βοσπορανοὶ δὲ ἐπὶ τούτοισ πεζοὶ ἰόντων, ἡγεμόνα παρεχόμενοι Λαμπροκλέα, καὶ οἱ Νομάδεσ ἐπὶ τούτοισ ὑποτεταγμένοι Οὐήρῳ τῷ σφετέρῳ ἄρχοντι. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 5:3)
  • ἐν δὲ καὶ ἄλλο τῷ σφετέρῳ Ἀπόλλωνι καινουργέουσι· (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 35:6)
  • ὅσσοι γὰρ Γαίησ τε καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ἐξεγένοντο, δεινότατοι παίδων, σφετέρῳ δ’ ἤχθοντο τοκῆι ἐξ ἀρχῆσ· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 16:4)
  • "μυθεύουσιν ἐν Κρήτῃ γενέσθαι τὴν Διὸσ τέκνωσιν ἐπὶ τῆσ Δίκτησ, ἐν ᾗ καὶ ἀπόρρητοσ γίνεται θυσία, λέγεται γὰρ ὡσ ἄρα Διὶ θηλὴν ὑπέσχεν ὗσ καὶ τῷ σφετέρῳ γρυσμῷ περιοιχνεῦσα τὸν κνυζηθμὸν τοῦ βρέφεοσ ἀνεπάιστον τοῖσ παριοῦσιν ἐτίθει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 182)
  • οἰόμενοι γὰρ ἐναντία λέγειν ἀλλήλοισ οὐκ αἰσθάνονται τὰ αὐτὰ πράττοντεσ οὐδὲ τὸν τῶν ἑτέρων λόγον ἐν τῷ σφετέρῳ λόγῳ ἐνόντα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 3 3:6)

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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