φύσις [ῠ], ἡ,
genitive φύσεως,
poetry φύσεος probably (for the sake of meter) in [
Refs 5th c.BC+] (variantφύση) [
Refs 5th c.BC+], (φύω):
I origin, φ. οὐδενός ἐστιν ἁπάντων θνητῶν οὐδὲ.. τελευτή [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently of persons,
birth, φύσει νεώτερος [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φύσει, opposed to θέσει (by adoption), [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; so ὁ κατὰ φύσιν πατήρ, υἱός, ἀδελφός, [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; also in
accusative, ἐκ πατρὸς ταὐτοῦ φύσιν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἢ φίλων τις ἢ πρὸς αἵματος φύσιν[
Refs 5th c.BC+]
I.2 growth, τριχῶν, παιδίου, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II the natural form or
constitution of a person or thing
as the result of growth (οἷον ἕκαστόν ἐστι τῆς γενέσεως τελεσθείσης, ταύτην φαμὲν τὴν φ. εἶναι ἑκάστου [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.1 nature, constitution, once in [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἵματος, ἀέρος, etc., [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.2 outward form, appearance, μέζονας ἢ κατ᾽ ἀνθρώπων φύσιν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἢ νόον ἤτοι φύσιν either in mind or
outward form, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; δρακαίνης φ. ἔχουσαν ἀγρίαν probably in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3 in Medicine texts,
constitution, temperament, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II.3.b natural place or
position of a bone or joint, ἀποπηδᾶν ἀπὸ τῆς φ., ἐς τὴν φ. ἄγεσθαι, [
Refs]
II.4 of the mind, one's
nature, character, ἦθος ἕκαστον, ὅπῃ φ. ἐστὶν ἑκάστῳ [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. φρενός [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. φιλόσοφος, τυραννική, etc., [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; Σόλων.. ἦν φιλόδημος τὴν φ. [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φύσεως ἰσχύς force
of natural powers, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φύσεως κακία badness
of natural disposition, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; χρῶ τῇ φύσει, i.e. give rein to your
natural propensities, [
NT+5th c.BC+]
II.4.b instinct in animals, etc., [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
II.5 frequently in periphrases, καὶ γὰρ ἂν πέτρου φύσιν σύ γ᾽ ὀργάνειας, i.e. would'st provoke a stone, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ φ. τῆς ἀσθενείας its
natural weakness, [
Refs]; ἡ φ., with
genitive understood, [
Refs]
III the regular order of nature, τύχη.. ἀβέβαιος, φ. δὲ αὐτάρκης [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; τρίχες κατὰ φύσιν πεφυκυῖαι growing
naturally, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to παρὰ φύσιν, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; προδότης ἐκ φύσεως a traitor by
nature, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; πρὸ τῆς φ. ἥκειν εἰς θάνατον before the
natural term, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
by nature, naturally, opposed to τύχῃ, τέχνῃ, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ μὴ αὑτοῦ φ. ἀλλ᾽ ἄλλου ἄνθρωπος ὤν, οὗτος φ. δοῦλός ἐστιν[
Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to νόμῳ (by convention), [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φύσιν ἔχει with
infinitive, it is
natural, κῶς φύσιν ἔχει πολλὰς μυριάδας φονεῦσαι (i.e. τὸν Ἡρακλέα); [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἔχει φύσιν it is contrary to
nature,[
Refs 4th c.BC+]
IV in Philosophy:
IV.1 nature as an originating power, φ. λέγεται.. ὅθεν ἡ κίνησις ἡ πρώτη ἐν ἑκάστῳ τῶν φύσει ὄντων [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ δὲ φ. οὐδὲν ἀλόγως οὐδὲ μάτην ποιεῖ[
Refs 1st c.AD+]; φ. κοινή, the
principle of growth in the universe, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; as Stoic technical term, the inner fire which causes preservation and growth in plants and animals, defined as πῦρ τεχνικὸν ὁδῷ βαδίζον εἰς γένεσιν, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+];
Nature, personified, χάρις τῇ μακαρίᾳ Φ. [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
IV.2 elementary substance, κινδυνεύει ὁ λέγων ταῦτα πῦρ καὶ ὕδωρ καὶ γῆν καὶ ἀέρα πρῶτα ἡγεῖσθαι τῶν πάντων εἶναι καὶ τὴν φ. ὀνομάζειν αὐτὰ ταῦτα [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
atoms, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
IV.3 concrete, the
creation, 'Nature', ἀθανάτου.. φύσεως κόσμον ἀγήρων [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; περὶ φύσεως, title of works by Xenophanes, Heraclitus, Gorgias, Epicurus, etc.; [σοφία] ἣν δὴ καλοῦσι περὶ φύσεως ἱστορίαν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ δύο φ., i.e. heaven and earth, light and darkness, etc., [
Refs]
IV.4 [
Refs 4th c.BC+] name for
two, [
Refs]
V as a concrete term,
creature, frequently in
collective sense, θνητὴ φ. man
kind, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόντου εἰναλία φ. the
creatures of the sea, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ τῶν θηλειῶν φ. woman-
kind (opposed to τὸ ἄρρεν φῦλον) [
Refs 5th c.BC+]: also in
plural, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; in contemptuous sense, αἱ τοιαῦται φ. such
creatures as these, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
V.b of plants or material
substances, φ. εὐώδεις καρποφοροῦσαι [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
VI kind, sort, species, ταύτην.. ἔχειν βιοτῆς.. φύσιν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; φ. [ἀλωπεκίδων]
species, [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
natural group or
class of plants, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
VII sex, θῆλυς φῦσα (probably to be read instead of οὖσα) κοὐκ ἀνδρὸς φύσιν [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
VII.2 the characteristic of sex, =αἰδοῖον, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]: especially of the female organ, [
Refs 5th c.BC+] of the testes, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
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