Included with: φθίω, ἔφθιον,
each once in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (see. below 1.2)] Refs 8th c.BC+], the common present being φθίνω, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.161, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+] (also φθινύθω, which see): imperfect ἔφθῐνον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.29, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 77a: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]future and aorist φθ (ε) ίσω, e)/fq (e) ισα and ἔφθῐσα (see. below [[ 11): ] Refs]perfect ἔφθῐκα see reading in [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Praef.” 6 (compare φθινάω), (ἀπ-) 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 28.341d:] Refs 1st c.AD+] —middle and passive (in same sense), future φθίσομαι (to be read φθείσομαι, in view of φθείσω, see below 11) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.821 (φθειται “PGen.” (2nd c.BC)), 19.329, 24.86 (variant), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.384: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist 1 φθίσασθαι [[ (ἀπο-) 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 14.545: _3rd.pers._ _plural_ ] Refs 4th c.AD+]aorist passive ἔφθῐθεν, see. {ἀποφθίνω}: aorist 2 ἐφθίμην, ἔφθῐσο [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 971 (Lyric poetry); ἔφθῐτο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.100, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1141 (nisi to be read ἔφθιται), 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 458, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 962, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 414 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural ἐφθίατο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.251 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; imperative 3rd.pers. singular φθίσθω (ἀπο-) [[ 8.429 ] Refs]; Epic dialect subjunctive φθίεται [[ 20.173, φθιόμεσθα 14.87 ] Refs]; optative φθίμην (ἀπο-) [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.51, φθῖτο (φθῖτ᾽) 11.330 (the variant φθεῖτ᾽ is incorrect)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive φθίσθαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.246, 13.667, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.117, 15.354, (κατα-) 2.183 (always with incorrect see l. φθεῖσθαι)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; participle φθίμενος, see below [[ 1.2: rare in ] Refs]perfect, ἔφθιται [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.340 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], 3rd.pers. plural ἐξ-έφθινται [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 679 (Lyric poetry). [8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus has ῑ in φθίῃς (below 1.2)] Refs 8th c.BC+], ῐ in ἔφθιεν (below), φθιόμεσθα, φθίεται: ῑ always in future and aorist φθίσω, φθίσομαι, ἔφθισα (sed see below [[ 11)] Refs], compare φθῑσήνωρ, φθῑσίμβροτος (which see): ῐ always in aorist and perfect passive (see. above), except in optative (see. above):—[[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus also uses ῑ in φθίνω (probably from *φθῐ-νϝω, compare φθίνυθω)] Refs 8th c.BC+] whereas ῐ always in φθῐνω in [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus and Trag., who use ῐ even in ἔφθισα, see below 11.] (Cf. ψίνω, ψινάς, ψίσις: φθῐ- and ψῐ-] Refs 5th c.BC+] correspond to Sanskrit k[snull]i-, present k[snull]iṇā´ti, k[snull]iṇóti, 'he destroys', passive K[snull][imacracute]yante 'they perish', ák[snull]itas (={ἄφθιτος}) 'imperishable', future stem k[snull]e[snull]ya- (={φθεισο-}), aorist stem k[snull]e[snull]- (= φθεισ-).)