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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

  • τοῦτο μέγεθόσ σου, ὡμοιώθησ τῷ φοίνικι καὶ οἱ μαστοί σου τοῖσ βότρυσιν. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 7:8)
  • εἶπα. ἀναβήσομαι ἐπὶ τῷ φοίνικι, κρατήσω τῶν ὕψεων αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσονται δὴ μαστοί σου ὡσ βότρυεσ τῆσ ἀμπέλου καὶ ὀσμὴ ρινόσ σου ὡσ μῆλα (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 7:9)
  • πυρὸσ φοίνικι πνοᾷ καθελὼν Τροίασ ἐπόρθησε χθόνα. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 14)
  • λάζυσθαι χρεὼν μοχλοὺσ δικέλλασ θ’, ὥστε Κυκλώπων βάθρα φοίνικι κανόνι καὶ τύκοισ ἡρμοσμένα στρεπτῷ σιδήρῳ συντριαινῶσαι πάλιν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 1:15)
  • καὶ Νέστορι δ’ ἤδη ὄντι γηραιῷ καὶ Φοίνικι δὲ κρέασ ὀπτὸν δίδωσι ἀφιστῶν ἡμᾶσ τῶν ἀτάκτων ἐπιθυμιῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 15 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. Phoenician

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