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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

  • σώφρονοσ δ’ ἔσῃ λάτρισ γυναικόσ, ὥσ φασ’ οἱ μολόντεσ Ἴλιον. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 2:21)
  • Εὐριπίδην φάσ’ ἄνδρα κηδεστήν τινα αὑτοῦ γέροντα δεῦρ’ ἀναπέμψαι τήμερον. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode7)
  • εἰσ ἀσπίδ’, ὥσπερ φάσ’ ἐν Αἰσχύλῳ ποτέ, μηλοσφαγούσασ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 5:13)
  • παρῆν δ’ ὁρᾶν οὐ ταῦτα μορφῆσ σχήματ’, ἀλλ’ ἠλλάσσετο φθογγάσ τε μόσχων καὶ κυνῶν ὑλάγματα, ἃσ φᾶσ’ Ἐρινῦσ ἱέναι μιμήματα. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 2:9)
  • ἄστροισ σφ’ ὁμοιωθέντε φάσ’ εἶναι θεώ. (Euripides, Helen, episode 6:34)

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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