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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

  • ὅτι δὲ λυχνοῦχοι οἱ νῦν καλούμενοι φανοὶ ὠνομάζοντο Ἀριστοφάνησ ἐν Αἰολοσίκωνι παρίστησιν καὶ διαστίλβονθ’ ὁρῶμεν ὥσπερ, ἐν καινῷ λυχνούχῳ, πάντα τῆσ ἐξωμίδοσ, ἐν δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ Νιόβῳ προειπὼν λυχνοῦχον οἴμοι κακόδαιμον φησίν, ὁ λύχνοσ ἡμῖν οἴχεται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 581)
  • Διαλλαγαί ἐπὶ τοῖσδε διήλλαξαν Στέφανον καὶ Ἐπαίνετον οἱ διαλλακταί, τῶν μὲν γεγενημένων περὶ τὸν εἱργμὸν μηδεμίαν μνείαν ἔχειν, Ἐπαίνετον δὲ δοῦναι χιλίασ δραχμὰσ Φανοῖ εἰσ ἔκδοσιν, ἐπειδὴ κέχρηται αὐτῇ πολλάκισ· (Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61, 107:4)

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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