διαφθορ-ά,
Ionic dialect διαφθορή, ἡ, (διαφθείρω) destruction, ruin, ἐπὶ -φθορᾷ τῆς πόλεως [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.86; ἀπέστειλε ἐπὶ διαφθορῇ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.164; μέχρι διαφθορᾶς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Menexenus” 242d: _plural_, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 573, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 destruction, blight, of things, ὀμμάτων διαφθοραί [[ [prev. author] “OC” 552; διαφθορὰ μορφῆς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 643. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 in moral sense, corruption, seduction, νέων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 19; κριτῶν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1372a34 (_plural_). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 miscarriage, abortion, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.3, “Coac.” 505 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Melanges Holleaux [[ 265 (2nd-1st c.BC). ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__5 stomachic disorder, [[ 2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “ὀξέων νούσων θεραπευτικόν” 1.5. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II concrete, ἰχθύσιν δ. a prey for fishes, of a corpse, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1297; πολεμίοις ὕβρισμα καὶ δ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 459. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]