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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

  • πτερόεντα γοῦν τὰ ἔπη καὶ ὑμεῖσ φατε εἶναι. (Lucian, Hercules, 6:3)
  • ἡ δὲ ὡρ́α τοῦ ἔτουσ ὅ τι περ τὸ πυρωδέστατόν ἐστι, τοῦ ἀστέροσ ὃν ὑμεῖσ κύνα φατὲ πάντα καταφλέγοντοσ καὶ τὸν ἀέρα ξηρὸν καὶ διακαῆ τιθέντοσ, ὅ τε ἥλιοσ κατὰ μεσημβρίαν ἤδη ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆσ ἐπικείμενοσ φλογμὸν τοῦτον οὐ φορητὸν ἐπάγει τοῖσ σώμασιν. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 16:11)
  • ὑπηρέται καὶ διάκονοί τινεσ τῶν Μοιρῶν εἶναί φατε. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 11:3)
  • τί φατὲ ; (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 17:3)
  • ὑμεῖσ δὲ τί φατε; (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 2:19)

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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