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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
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative φανός φανή φανόν
Genitive φανοῦ φανῆς φανοῦ
Dative φανῷ φανῇ φανῷ
Accusative φανόν φανήν φανόν
Vocative φανέ φανή φανόν
DualN/A/V φανώ φανᾱ́ φανώ
G/D φανοῖν φαναῖν φανοῖν
PluralNominative φανοί φαναί φανά
Genitive φανῶν φανῶν φανῶν
Dative φανοῖς φαναῖς φανοῖς
Accusative φανούς φανᾱ́ς φανά
Vocative φανοί φαναί φανά
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective φανός φανοῦ φανώτερος φανωτεροῦ φανώτατος φανωτατοῦ
Adverb φανώς φανώτερον φανώτατα

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

  • οὔκουν ἄν, εἰ τὼ μὲν ξύλω θείμεσθα πρῶτον αὐτοῦ, τῆσ ἀμπέλου δ’ ἐσ τὴν χύτραν τὸν φανὸν ἐγκαθέντεσ ἅψαντεσ εἶτ’ ἐσ τὴν θύραν κριηδὸν ἐμπέσοιμεν; (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Parodos, tetrameters2)
  • ὁ δὲ λυχνέα, ὁ δὲ λοφνίαν,15 οὕτω καλεῖσθαι φάσκων τὴν ἐκ τοῦ φλοιοῦ λαμπάδα, ὁ δὲ πανόν, ἄλλοσ δὲ φανόν, ὁ δὲ λυχνοῦχον, ὃ δὲ λύχνον, καὶ δίμυξον δὲ λύχνον ἕτεροσ,16 ἄλλοσ δὲ ἑλάνην, ὁ δέ τισ ἑλάνασ, τὰσ λαμπάδασ οὕτω φάσκων καλεῖσθαι παρὰ τὴν ἕλην οὕτω δ’ εἰπεῖν Νεάνθην ἐν α’ τῶν περὶ Σ32Ατταλον Ἱστοριῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 57 1:1)
  • Τιμαχίδασ δὲ ὁ Ῥόδιοσ δέλετρον τὸν φανὸν καλεῖσθαι, οἱο͂ν, φησίν, οἱ νυκτερευόμενοι τῶν νέων ἔχουσιν οὓσ οὗτοι ἑλάνασ καλοῦσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 57 2:2)
  • Ἀμερίασ δὲ γράβιον τὸν φανόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 57 2:3)
  • οὔκουν λαβὼν τὸν φανὸν ἅψεισ μοι λύχνον; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 595)

Synonyms

  1. light

  2. washed clean

  3. bright

  4. conspicuous

Related

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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