Ancient Greek

Verb

φθείρω • ‎(phtheírō) future: φθερῶ aorist: ἔφθειρα perfect active: ἔφθαρκα perfect mediopassive: ἔφθαρμαι aorist passive: ἐφθάρην

1. I destroy

Usage notes

The compound verb διαφθείρω ‎(diaphtheírō) is much more frequent than the simple verb.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• φθορά ‎(phthorá)
• ?φθορῐ́ᾱ ‎(phthoríā)

Related terms

• φθαρτός ‎(phthartós)

References

• φθείρω in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φθείρω in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φθείρω in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «φθείρω» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «φθείρω» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• φθείρω in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G5351”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979