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φαιός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φαιός φαιή φαιόν

Structure: φαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. dusky, dun, gray

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ὁ δὲ προειρημένοσ, ἐπειδὴ τὰσ ὑδρίασ εἰσ τοὺσ βασιλικοὺσ οἴκουσ ἔθηκε, παραγγείλασ ἀποθέσθαι τὰ φαιά, πρῶτον μὲν διμήνου τὰσ δυνάμεισ ὠψωνίασε, πεπεισμένοσ τὸ παρὰ τοῖσ πολλοῖσ μῖσοσ ἀμβλύνειν διὰ τῆσ πρὸσ τὸ λυσιτελὲσ ὁρμῆσ αὐτῶν, εἶτ’ ἐπεξώρκισε τὸν ὁρ́κον ὃν ἦσαν ὀμνύειν εἰθισμένοι κατὰ τὰσ ἀναδείξεισ τῶν βασιλέων. (Polybius, Histories, book 15, chapter 25 11:1)
  • τότε δὴ παντάπασιν ἔξω τοῦ φρονεῖν γενόμενοι διὰ τὸν περὶ τῆσ πατρίδοσ κίνδυνον εἰσ τοιαύτην ἦλθον διάθεσιν ὥστε καὶ φαιὰ λαβεῖν ἱμάτια καὶ κατὰ τὰσ παρακλήσεισ μηκέτι παρακαλεῖν μηδ’ ἀξιοῦν τοὺσ φίλουσ, ἀλλὰ δεῖσθαι μετὰ δακρύων μηδὲν ἀνήκεστον βουλεύσασθαι περὶ αὑτῶν. (Polybius, Histories, book 30, chapter 4 5:1)

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

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