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φθορά
φθορά
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- φθορή (phthorḗ) Ionic
Noun
φθορᾱ́ • (phthorā́) f (genitive φθορᾶς); first declension
- destruction, ruin
- (of persons) death (especially by some divine act, as pestilence)
- (of animals) loss by death
- PStrassb. 24.26
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- (of persons) death (especially by some divine act, as pestilence)
- (philosophy) passing out of existence, ceasing to be
- bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
- bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
- bad argument #1 to 'lc' (string expected, got nil)
- deterioration
- loss by deterioration, damage
- seduction
- 50BC-50AD, Parthenius, Collected Works 35.3
- abortion, miscarriage
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- Soranus, Collected Works 1.59
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- gradation of colors in painting
- wasting away
- the tossings of a storm, shipwrecks
Declension
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ φθορᾱ́ | τὼ φθορᾱ́ | αἱ φθοραί | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς φθορᾶς | τοῖν φθοραῖν | τῶν φθορῶν | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ φθορᾷ | τοῖν φθοραῖν | ταῖς φθοραῖς | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν φθορᾱ́ν | τὼ φθορᾱ́ | τᾱ̀ς φθορᾱ́ς | ||||||||||
Vocative | φθορᾱ́ | φθορᾱ́ | φθοραί | ||||||||||
Notes: | This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in dialects other than Attic, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. |
Synonyms
- (wasting away): φθόη (phthóē)
Descendants
- Translingual: Phytophthora, Entomophthora
- English: phytophthora
- French: phthore, phtore
- English: phthor
- Greek: φθορά (fthorá)
- Russian: фтор (ftor)
- Armenian: ֆտոր (ftor)
References
- φθορά in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φθορά in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «φθορά» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “G5356”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- blight idem, page 83.
- corruptibility idem, page 175.
- corruption idem, page 175.
- decay idem, page 199.
- destruction idem, page 218.
- downfall idem, page 249.
- havoc idem, page 389.
- mortality idem, page 541.
- overthrow idem, page 586.
- perdition idem, page 604.
- ruin idem, page 725.
- wasting idem, page 965.
- wreck idem, page 992.