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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

  • τοῦ δ’ ἐπὶ θηλείῃ λυπουμένου, ἓξ διαλείπει ἤματα, καὶ τίκτειν ἄρσενα παῖδ’ ἔφατο. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 182)
  • ὣσ ἔφατο, Τρῶασ δὲ κατὰ κρῆθεν λάβε πένθοσ ἄσχετον, οὐκ ἐπιεικτόν, ἐπεί σφισιν ἑρ́μα πόληοσ ἔσκε καὶ ἀλλοδαπόσ περ ἐών· (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 45:1)
  • ὣσ ἔφατο· (Homer, Iliad, Book 19 8:25)
  • ὣσ ἔφατο κλαίουσ’, ἐπὶ δὲ στενάχοντο γυναῖκεσ Πάτροκλον πρόφασιν, σφῶν δ’ αὐτῶν κήδε’ ἑκάστη. (Homer, Iliad, Book 19 24:1)
  • ὣσ ἔφατο κλαίων, ἐπὶ δὲ στενάχοντο γέροντεσ, μνησάμενοι τὰ ἕκαστοσ ἐνὶ μεγάροισιν ἔλειπον· (Homer, Iliad, Book 19 27:1)

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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