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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

  • τῶν μὲν γὰρ ἄλλων ἐστὶ πάντων πλησμονή, ἔρωτοσ ἄρτων μουσικῆσ τραγημάτων τιμῆσ πλακούντων ἀνδραγαθίασ ἰσχάδων φιλοτιμίασ μάζησ στρατηγίασ φακῆσ· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 4:20)
  • περὶ Ἀθηνῶν, περὶ φακῆσ, περὶ Λακεδαιμονίων, περὶ σκόμβρων νέων, περὶ τῶν μετρούντων τἄλφιτ’ ἐν ἀγορᾷ κακῶσ, περὶ σοῦ, περὶ ἐμοῦ, περὶ ἁπάντων πραγμάτων. (Aristotle, Episode16)
  • θερμὸσ γὰρ ἁνὴρ οὐδὲν ἧττον τῆσ φακῆσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:15)
  • ἐγὼ γὰρ ἀπεδάκρυσα νῦν γνώμην ἐμὴν οὐδέν ποτ’ ἀλλ’ ἢ τῆσ φακῆσ ἐμπλήμενοσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 2:33)
  • "τὸ δὲ φακῆσ, οἱο͂ν ἀφάκη, φακόσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 71 1:4)

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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