φθορᾶς (phthoras)

φθορᾶς is an Ancient Greek form of φθορά, meaning “destruction, corruption”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 132 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.87.4: ἐμοὶ μέντοι δοκεῖ σαφέστατον εἶναι διατριβῆς ἕνεκα καὶ ἀνοκωχῆς τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν τὸ ναυτικὸν οὐκ ἀγαγεῖν, φθορᾶς μέν, ἐν ὅσῳ παρῄει ἐκεῖσε καὶ διέμελλεν, ἀνισώσεως δέ, ὅπως μηδετέροις προσθέμενος ἰσχυροτέρους ποιήσῃ, ἐπεί, …

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 9.6.33: … ς, διὰ τὸ ἀνίσους εἶναι τοὺς κύκλους αὐτῶν. εἶναί τε ὥσπερ γενέσεις κόσμου, οὕτω καὶ αὐξήσεις καὶ φθίσεις καὶ φθοράς, κατά τινα ἀνάγκην, ἣν ὁποία ἐστὶν 〈οὐ〉 διασαφεῖ.

Euripides, Helen 766: τί σοι λέγοιμʼ ἂν τὰς ἐν Αἰγαίῳ φθορὰς

All forms of φθορά (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.