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φαινόλις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φαινόλις φαινόλιος

Structure: φαινολι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nw

Sense

  1. light-bringing

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

  • αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ κλαίεσκον ἀμηχανέοντασ ὁρῶσα παῖδασ ἐμούσ, μέχρι δή μοι ἀπέσσυτο νήδυμοσ ὕπνοσ ὀφθαλμῶν, ἠὼσ δὲ παραυτίκα φαινόλισ ἦλθε. (Theocritus, Idylls, 63)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅτε δὴ δεκάτη οἱ ἐπήλυθε φαινολὶσ ἠώσ, ἤντετό οἱ Ἑκάτη, σέλασ ἐν χείρεσσιν ἔχουσα καί ῥά οἱ ἀγγελέουσα ἔποσ φάτο φώνησέν τε· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 6:4)

Synonyms

  1. light-bringing

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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