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φύσεων (physeon)

φύσεων is an Ancient Greek form of φύσις, meaning “nature”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of φύω, “grow, produce; (perf.) be by nature”. It is the active participle genitive plural feminine.

It can also be a form of φῦσα, “bellows”.

It can also be a form of φύζω, “(garbled form)”.

Found 51 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.138: … οὐσίας ἤ, ὥς φησι Ποσειδώνιος ἐν τῇ Μετεωρολογικῇ στοιχειώσει, σύστημα ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς καὶ τῶν ἐν τούτοις φύσεων ἢ σύστημα ἐκ θεῶν καὶ ἀνθρώπων καὶ τῶν ἕνεκα τούτων γεγονότων. οὐρανὸς δέ ἐστιν ἡ ἐσχάτη περιφέρεια ἐν ᾗ πᾶν …

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 1.6: Περὶ ἀρρενικῶν καὶ θηλυκῶν ἀστέρων Πάλιν ἐπειδὴ τὰ πρῶτα γένη τῶν φύσεών ἐστι δύο, τό τε ἀρρενικὸν καὶ τὸ θῆλυ, τῶν δὲ προκειμένων δυνάμεων ἡ τῆς ὑγρᾶς οὐσίας μάλιστα θηλυκὴ τυγχάνει …

Hippocrates, De diaeta in morbis acutis 7·2: ἄγει δὲ μέλας μὲν καλλίω καὶ κρισιμώτερα πεπλίου, πέπλιον δὲ μέλανος μᾶλλον φυσέων καταῤῥηκτικόν ἐστιν· ἄμφω δὲ ταῦτα ὀδύνην παύει· παύει δὲ καὶ ἄλλα πολλα τῶν ὑπηλάτων· κράτιστα δὲ ταῦτα ὧν ἐ …

All forms of φύσις (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.