dread
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
P. and V. φόβος, ὁ, ὀρρωδία, ἡ, δεῖμα, τό, δέος, τό, ἔκπληξις, ἡ, V. τάρβος, τό; see fear.
hesitation: P. and V. ὄκνος, ὁ.
verb transitive
P. and V. φοβεῖσθαι, ὀρρωδεῖν, δεῖσαι (1st aor. act. of δείδειν), δεδοικέναι (perf. act. of δείδειν), ἐκφοβεῖσθαι, Ar. and P. καταδεῖσαι (1st aor. of καταδείδειν), V. ταρβεῖν, δειμαίνειν (also Plato but rare P.), τρέσαι (1st aor. of τρεῖν) (also Plato but rare P.), Ar. and V. τρέμειν (also Plato but rare P.).
shrink from: P. and V. ὀκνεῖν (acc.), P. ἀποκνεῖν (acc.).
dread to. (with infin.): P. and V. φοβεῖσθαι, δεδοικέναι, V. ὀρρωδεῖν, τρέμειν, ταρβεῖν.
shrink from: P. and V. ὀκνεῖν (infin.), κατοκνεῖν (infin.).
adjective
See dreadful.
