Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φάσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φάσις φάσεως

Structure: φασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. utterance, expression
  2. statement, proposition

Declension

Third 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

  • ἄλλοι δὲ τὸ τοῦ πιθήκου πεπονθέναι σε φήσουσιν, ὃν Κλεοπάτρᾳ τῇ πάνυ φασὶ γενέσθαι· (Lucian, Apologia 14:1)
  • οὕτω φασὶ ποιήσειν· (Lucian, Dearum judicium, (no name) 9:2)
  • καὶ οὐδὲ ἐντελῆ τὸν μισθὸν ἐκομίσαντο παρὰ τοῦ Φρυγόσ, ἀλλὰ προσώφειλεν αὐτοῖσ πλέον ἢ τριάκοντα, φασί, δραχμὰσ Τρωϊκάσ. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 4:3)
  • φασὶ γοῦν Ἀπόλλωνοσ παρέδρουσ αὐτοὺσ ὄντασ, ᾠδικοὺσ ἀνθρώπουσ, ἐνταῦθά που ἐσ τὰ ὄρνεα μεταπεσεῖν καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ᾄδειν ἔτι οὐκ ἐκλαθομένουσ τῆσ μουσικῆσ. (Lucian, Electrum, (no name) 4:3)
  • Ἥρην μὲν Χαρίτων ἱερὴν ἐνέπουσι τιθήνην, φασὶ δὲ κοιρανίην μεθέπειν καὶ σκῆπτρα φυλάσσειν· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 145)

Derived

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

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