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φακῆ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φακῆ

Structure: φακ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a dish of lentils, lentil-soup

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φακῆ φακᾶ φακαί
Genitive φακῆς φακαῖν φακῶν
Dative φακῇ φακαῖν φακαῖς
Accusative φακῆν φακᾶ φακᾶς
Vocative φακῆ φακᾶ φακαί

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

  • δῆλον ὅτι τοὺσ τρόπουσ τισ οὐ μοχθηρὸσ ἦν, ἔπειτα πλουτῶν οὐκέθ’ ἥδεται φακῇ· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:1)
  • ἐπεὶ οὔτε ἀλλάντων γεύσεσθε οὔτε πλακοῦντοσ ἢ εἴ τι λείψανον τῆσ κυνόσ, ἡ φακῆ δὲ ὑμῖν σαπέρδην ἐντετηκότα ἕξει, ὗσ δὲ καὶ ἔλαφοσ ὀπτώμενοι μεταξὺ δρασμὸν βουλεύσουσιν ἐκ τοῦ ὀπτανείου ἐσ τὸ ὄροσ, καὶ ὄρνισ ψύττα κατατείνασαι ἄπτεροι καὶ αὗται παῤ αὐτοὺσ τοὺσ πένητασ ἐκπετήσονται· (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 3 5:4)
  • καὶ προσέστηκεν φακῆ ῥοφεῖν, ἐὰν δέῃ τι. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:8)
  • ὅτι δείπνων ἀναγραφὰσ πεποίηνται ἄλλοι τε καὶ Τιμαχίδασ ὁ Ῥόδιοσ δι’ ἐπῶν ἐν ἕνδεκα βιβλίοισ ἢ καὶ πλείοσι καὶ Νουμήνιοσ ὁ Ἡρακλεώτησ, ὁ Διεύχουσ τοῦ ἰατροῦ μαθητήσ, καὶ Ματρέασ ὁ Πιταναῖοσ ὁ παρῳδὸσ καὶ Ἡγήμων ὁ Θάσιοσ ὁ ἐπικληθεὶσ Φακῆ, ὃν τῇ ἀρχαίᾳ κωμῳδίᾳ τινὲσ ἐντάττουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 83)
  • "δεινὰ παθοῦσα, Φακῆ βδελυρά, χώρει ’σ τὸν ἀγῶνα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 55 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a dish of lentils

Similar forms

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

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