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φαναῖος?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: phanaios

Principal Part: φαναῖος φαναῖη φαναῖον

Structure: φαναι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: φανή

Sense

  1. giving or bringing light

Examples

  • σύ μοι Ζεὺς ὁ φαναῖος ἥκεις διφρεύων βαλιαῖσι πώλοις. (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • Δήλιος δὲ καὶ Φαναῖος οἷς ἤδη τι δηλοῦται καὶ ὑποφαίνεται τῆς ἀληθείας: (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 2 1:1)
  • "καὶ ὁ μὲν Θεώριος καὶ Φαναῖος, ὁ δὲ νυκτὸς ἀιδνᾶς ἀεργηλοῖὸ θ Ὕπνου κοίρανος: (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 2110)

Synonyms

  1. giving or bringing light

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

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