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φθόνου (phthonou)

φθόνου is an Ancient Greek form of φθόνος, meaning “envy”. It is the genitive singular masculine noun.

Found 156 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.5.76: … ν ᾀδομένους. Σφόδρα δὲ λαμπρὸς ὢν παρὰ τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις, ὅμως ἐπεσκοτήθη καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπὸ τοῦ τὰ πάντα διεσθίοντος φθόνου.

Euripides, The Trojan Women 768: Ἀλάστορος μὲν πρῶτον, εἶτα δὲ Φθόνου,

All forms of φθόνος (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.