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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

  • "Ζεῦ, μὴ λάθοι σε τῶνδ’ ὃσ αἴτιοσ φακῶν καὶ ἄλλοσ ἑξῆσ ἀνεβόησε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 4511)
  • "τράχηλοσ μέλασ, παχύτεροσ καὶ βραχύτεροσ τῶν ὀρνίθων, τὸ δὲ σῶμα ἅπαν ποικίλον, μέλανοσ ὄντοσ τοῦ χρώματοσ ὅλου, πτίλοισ λευκοῖσ καὶ πυκνοῖσ διειλημμένου οὐ μείζοσιν φακῶν, οὗτοι δ’ εἰσὶν ἐν ῥόμβοισ οἱ κυκλίσκοι ἧσσον μέλασι τοῦ ὅλου χρώματοσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 71 1:5)
  • διὸ καὶ φακῶν αὐτῷ φυομένων ἀπαρχὰσ ἐπιφέρουσι, τὰσ δὲ λοχείουσ ἡμέρασ ἑορτάζειν μετὰ τὴν ἐαρινὴν ἰσημερίαν. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 65 4:1)
  • ἀμέλει δὲ καὶ συναγόντων παρ’ αὐτῷ, ὑποθεῖναι τῶν παρ’ ἑαυτοῦ διδομένων ξύλων καὶ φακῶν καὶ ὄξουσ καὶ ἁλῶν καὶ ἐλαίου τοῦ εἰσ τὸν λύχνον. (Theophrastus, Characters, 18:1)
  • ἔστω δὲ καὶ πυρίη, φακῶν τῶν κεραμήων, ἢ χαλκέων, ἢ κέγχρου καὶ ἁλῶν φωχθέντων. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 217)

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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