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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

  • τὰ δὲ δημόσια τῶν δικαστηρίων ἐστὶ φα . (Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, work Ath. Pol., chapter 68 1:1)
  • Φοίβου γὰρ αὐτὸν φᾶ γεγάκειν πατρόσ, περὶ θνατῶν δ’ ἔσεσθαι μάντιν ἐπιχθονίοισ ἔξοχον, οὐδέ ποτ’ ἐκλείψειν γενεάν. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 6 15:2)
  • νῦν δ’ ἐφίητι <τὸ> τὠργείου φυλάξαι ῥῆμ’ ἀλαθείασ <ἐτᾶσ> ἄγχιστα βαῖνον, " χρήματα, χρήματ’ ἀνήρ," ὃσ φᾶ κτεάνων θ’ ἅμα λειφθεὶσ καὶ φίλων. (Pindar, Odes, isthmian odes, isthmian 2 3:3)
  • Κόωσ δ’ ὀλόλυξεν ἰδοῖσα, φᾶ δὲ καθαπτομένα βρέφεοσ χείρεσσι φίλῃσιν· (Theocritus, Idylls, 32)
  • " Φᾶ, καὶ ἐρωήσασ ἐλεφάντινον ᾤχετο δίφρον Τειρεσίασ πολλοῖσι βαρύσ περ ἐὼν ἐνιαυτοῖσ. (Theocritus, Idylls, 58)

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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