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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

  • δύο ϝοι φῶτε μόνουσ ἁμαρτεῖν λέγει, περὶ φαιδίμοισι δ’ ὤμοισ ξίφοσ ἔχειν <ἐλεφαντόκωπον>· (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 18 4:1)
  • λεύσσω δὲ φῶτε περιπολοῦνθ’ ἡμῶν στρατὸν πυκνῆσ δι’ ὄρφνησ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic11)
  • Αἰνείασ δ’ οὐ μεῖνε θοόσ περ ἐὼν πολεμιστὴσ ὡσ εἶδεν δύο φῶτε παρ’ ἀλλήλοισι μένοντε. (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 58:7)
  • ἔνθ’ Ἕκτωρ δύο φῶτε κατέκτανεν εἰδότε χάρμησ εἰν ἑνὶ δίφρῳ ἐόντε, Μενέσθην Ἀγχίαλόν τε. (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 63:2)
  • δύο δ’ οὔ πω φῶτε πεπύσθην ἀνέρε κυδαλίμω Θρασυμήδησ Ἀντίλοχόσ τε Πατρόκλοιο θανόντοσ ἀμύμονοσ, ἀλλ’ ἔτ’ ἔφαντο ζωὸν ἐνὶ πρώτῳ ὁμάδῳ Τρώεσσι μάχεσθαι. (Homer, Iliad, Book 17 38:6)

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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