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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

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

  • ἢν ταῦτα ἐπανορθώσῃσ καὶ μετακοσμήσῃσ, ὦ Κρόνε, βίον μὲν τὸν βίον, ἑορτὴν δὲ τὴν ἑορτὴν ἔσῃ πεποιηκώσ, εἰ δὲ μή, ἐκεῖνοι μὲν ἑορταζόντων, ἡμεῖσ δὲ καθεδούμεθα εὐχόμενοι, ἐπειδὰν λουσάμενοι ἥκωσι, τὸν παῖδα μὲν αὐτοῖσ ἀνατρέψαντα τὸν ἀμφορέα κατᾶξαι, τὸν μάγειρον δὲ τὸν ζωμὸν κνισῶσαι καὶ ἐπιλαθόμενον τὸ τάριχοσ μὲν ἐσ τὴν φακῆν ἐμβαλεῖν τῶν ἰχθύων· (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 1 5:1)
  • αὐτοῦ μένων γὰρ τὴν φακῆν ῥοφήσομαι. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:11)
  • κέχρηται δὲ καὶ Ἐπίχαρμοσ ὁ Συρακόσιοσ ἔν τισι τῶν δραμάτων ἐπ’ ὀλίγον καὶ Κρατῖνοσ ὁ τῆσ ἀρχαίασ κωμῳδίασ ποιητὴσ ἐν Εὐνείδαισ καὶ τῶν κατ’ αὐτὸν Ἡγήμων ὁ Θάσιοσ, ὃν ἐκάλουν Φακῆν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 55 2:2)
  • Ἆγισ Ῥόδιοσ ὤπτηκεν ἰχθὺν μόνοσ ἄκρωσ, Νηρεὺσ δ’ ὁ Χῖοσ γόγγρον ἧψε τοῖσ θεοῖσ, θρῖον τὸ λευκὸν οὑξ Ἀθηνῶν Χαριάδησ, ζωμὸσ μέλασ ἐγένετο πρώτῳ Λαμπρίᾳ, ἀλλᾶντασ Ἀφθόνητοσ, Εὔθυνοσ φακῆν, ἀπὸ συμβολῶν συνάγουσιν Ἀριστίων σπάρουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 24 2:1)
  • ἑψήσω φακῆν, καὶ ἐν Ἐφεσίῳ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 35 1:12)

Synonyms

  1. a dish of lentils

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

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