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Φοῖνιξ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Φοῖνιξ Φοίνικος

Structure: Φοινικ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Phoenician
  2. Carthaginian (as descendants of Phoenicia)

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • δίκαιοσ ὡσ φοῖνιξ ἀνθήσει, ὡσεὶ ἡ κέδροσ ἡ ἐν τῷ Λιβάνῳ πληθυνθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 91:13)
  • ὡσ φοῖνιξ ἀνυψώθην ἐν αἰγιαλοῖσ καὶ ὡσ φυτὰ ρόδου ἐν Ἱεριχώ, ὡσ ἐλαία εὐπρεπὴσ ἐν πεδίῳ, καὶ ἀνυψώθην ὡσ πλάτανοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 24:14)
  • ἡ ἄμπελοσ ἐξηράνθη, καὶ αἱ συκαῖ ὠλιγώθησαν. ρόα καὶ φοῖνιξ καὶ μῆλον καί πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ ἀγροῦ ἐξηράνθησαν, ὅτι ᾔσχυναν χαρὰν οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 1:12)
  • "ἤκουον δὲ ὡσ οὐδὲ Πρωτεὺσ ἔτι καλεῖσθαι ἀξιοῖ, ἀλλὰ Φοίνικα μετωνόμασεν ἑαυτόν, ὅτι καὶ φοῖνιξ, τὸ Ἰνδικὸν ὄρνεον, ἐπιβαίνειν πυρᾶσ λέγεται πορρωτάτω γήρωσ προβεβηκώσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:84)
  • ὅτε δὲ μεταβαίην ἐπὶ τοὺσ Σκύθασ, πλανωμένουσ ἐπὶ τῶν ἁμαξῶν ἦν ἰδεῖν μικρὸν δ’ ἐγκλίνασ ^ τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν ἐπὶ θάτερα τοὺσ Αἰγυπτίουσ γεωργοῦντασ ἐπέβλεπον, καὶ ὁ Φοῖνιξ ^ ἐνεπορεύετο καὶ ὁ Κίλιξ ἐλῄστευεν καὶ ὁ Λάκων ἐμαστιγοῦτο καὶ ὁ ’ Ἀθηναῖοσ ἐδικάζετο. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 16:10)

Synonyms

  1. Phoenician

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