φθονεῖν (phthonein)

φθονεῖν is an Ancient Greek form of φθονέω, meaning “envy, begrudge”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 77 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 3.84.2: … ἂν τοῦ τε ὁσίου τὸ τιμωρεῖσθαι προυτίθεσαν τοῦ τε μὴ ἀδικεῖν τὸ κερδαίνειν, ἐν ᾧ μὴ βλάπτουσαν ἰσχὺν εἶχε τὸ φθονεῖν.

All forms of φθονέω (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.