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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

  • καίτοι πόλιν σὴν σύγγονοι πρεσβεύομεν Μοῦσαι μάλιστα κἀπιχρώμεθα χθονί, μυστηρίων τε τῶν ἀπορρήτων φανὰσ ἔδειξεν Ὀρφεύσ, αὐτανέψιοσ νεκροῦ τοῦδ’ ὃν κατακτείνεισ σύ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 3:2)
  • ἐσ φανάσ γε Βακχίου. (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees 1:13)
  • ἀπέθανον δὲ καὶ τῶν πρωτευόντων ἄλλοι τε καὶ Ἀνδροκλῆσ καὶ Φίντασ καὶ λόγου μάλιστα ἀξίωσ ἀγωνισάμενοσ Φάνασ, ὃσ πρότερον τούτων ἔτι δολίχου νίκην Ὀλυμπίασιν ἦν ἀνῃρημένοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 14:4)

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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