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φανός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φανός φανή φανόν

Structure: φαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fai/nw

Sense

  1. light, bright, brightness, light
  2. washed clean
  3. bright, joyous
  4. conspicuous
  5. perspicuously;

Declension

First/Second 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

  • Χαβρίασ Ἀθηναῖοσ Ταῲ τῷ Αἰγυπτίων βασιλεῖ ἐκστρατεύοντι καὶ δεομένῳ χρημάτων συνεβούλευε τῶν τε ἱερῶν τινα καὶ τῶν ἱερέων τὸ πλῆθοσ φάναι πρὸσ τοὺσ ἱερεῖσ δεῖν παραλυθῆναι διὰ τὴν δαπάνην. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 92:1)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν κόλαξ ἅτε τῆσ χρείασ ἕνεκα τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ ἐπαινῶν, ἀληθείασ δὲ ὀλίγην ποιούμενοσ τὴν πρόνοιαν, ἅπαντα ὑπερεπαινεῖν οἰέται δεῖν, ἐπιψευδόμενοσ καὶ προστιθεὶσ παρ’ αὑτοῦ τὰ πλείω, ὡσ μὴ ἂν ὀκνῆσαι καὶ τὸν Θερσίτην εὐμορφότερον ἀποφῆναι τοῦ Ἀχιλλέωσ καὶ τὸν Νέστορα φάναι τῶν ἐπὶ Ἴλιον στρατευσάντων τὸν νεώτατον εἶναι. (Lucian, Pro imaginibus, (no name) 20:3)
  • τὸν δὲ Θεόπομπον ἐπὶ τῷ Τρικαράνῳ κρίνοντα φάναι τριγλώχινι λόγῳ καθῃρηκέναι αὐτὸν τὰσ προὐχούσασ πόλεισ ; (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 26:5)
  • τί δ’ οὖν ἄλλο ἢ ἄνοιαν χρὴ αἰτίαν εἶναι αὐτοῖσ φάναι τοῦ μὴ τἀληθῆ λέγειν, εἴ γε τὸ χείριστον ἀντὶ τοῦ βελτίστου προαιροῦνται; (Lucian, Philopsuedes sive incredulus, (no name) 2:3)
  • πόσου τοῦτον ἄξιον χρὴ φάναι; (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 26:30)

Synonyms

  1. light

  2. washed clean

  3. bright

  4. conspicuous

Related

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

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