φθίνει (phthinei)

φθίνει is an Ancient Greek form of φθίω, meaning “perish, waste away”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 26 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 3.1.11: … αμεῖν, ἔτι χʼ ὑπάρχοι κῆνο τὸ μέτρον; — οὐ γάρ. — ὧδε νῦν ὅρη καὶ τὸς ἀνθρώπως· ὁ μὲν γὰρ αὔξεθʼ, ὁ δέ γα μὰν φθίνει, ἐν μεταλλαγᾷ δὲ πάντες ἐντὶ πάντα τὸν χρόνον. ὃ δὲ μεταλλάσσει κατὰ φύσιν κοὔποκʼ ἐν ταὐτῷ μένει, ἕτερον εἴη …

All forms of φθίω (conjugation 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.