Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

φάω

α-contract Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φάω

Structure: φά (Stem) + ω (Ending)

Sense

  1. to give light, shine

Conjugation

Present tense

Imperfect tense

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

  • ὣσ ἔφαν· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 15:1)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἔφαν τεύξεσθαι ἐνηέοσ Αἰήταο κῶασ ἄγειν κριοῖο μεμαότασ, ὧδε δ’ ἐείπεν Ἄργοσ, ἀτεμβόμενοσ τοῖον στόλον ἀμφιπένεσθαι· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 20:12)
  • " Ὧσ ἄρ’ ἔφαν, καὶ ἄφαντοι ἵν’ ἔσταθεν, ἔνθ’ ἄρα ταίγε φθογγῇ ὁμοῦ ἐγένοντο παρασχεδόν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 21:10)
  • νῦν δὲ χάριν μὲν ἔφαν τᾷ Κύπριδι πρᾶτον ὀφείλειν, καὶ μετὰ τὰν Κύπριν τύ με δευτέρα ἐκ πυρὸσ εἵλευ ὦ γύναι ἐσκαλέσασα τεὸν ποτὶ τοῦτο μέλαθρον αὔτωσ ἡμίφλεκτον· (Theocritus, Idylls, 93)
  • τὸν καλὸν ὡσ ἰδόμαν Ἀρχέστρατον, οὐ μὰ τὸν Ἑρμᾶν, οὐ καλὸν αὐτὸν ἔφαν· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1401)

Synonyms

  1. to give light

Related

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

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