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σφέτερον (spheteron)

σφέτερον is an Ancient Greek form of σφέτερος, meaning “their own”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 68 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.186: τόνδʼ ἀπαμείρωμεν σφέτερον κτέρας. ἀλλὰ πάροιθεν

Hesiod, Shield of Heracles 90: ὃς προλιπὼν σφέτερόν τε δόμον σφετέρους τε τοκῆας

All forms of σφέτερος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.