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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

  • πρίν γε κλέομεν λιπεῖν Οἰχαλίαν πυρὶ δαπτομέναν Ἀμφιτρυωνιάδαν θρασυμηδέα φῶ‐ θ’, ἵκετο δ’ ἀμφικύμον’ ἀκτάν· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 16 <[H(raklh=s]> 2:1)
  • τί σε φῶ νέον ἀγγέλλειν; (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, anapests5)
  • οἱάν οἱάν ὀργὰν ἀναφαίνει χθόνιον γένοσ ἐκφύσ τε δράκοντόσ ποτε Πενθεύσ, ὃν Ἐχίων ἐφύτευσε χθόνιοσ, ἀγριωπὸν τέρασ, οὐ φῶ‐ τα βρότειον, φόνιον δ’ ὥσ‐ τε γίγαντ’ ἀντίπαλον θεοῖσ· (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • ὦ κρεῖσσον ἢ λόγοισιν εὐτυχοῦσά μου ψυχά, τί φῶ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric4)
  • ἢ τί φῶ; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 2:14)

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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