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φέγγος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φέγγος φέγγεος

Structure: φεγγο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. light, splendour, lustre, daylight, light, moonlight
  2. the light
  3. the light, a light, torch, watchfires
  4. the light
  5. light

Declension

Third declension

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

  • "μητέρα παρθενικήν τε κόρην δισσούσ τε συναίμουσ ἐν ταὐτῷ φέγγει μοιραδίῳ φθιμένουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5287)
  • αἰνῶ τε μύθουσ τῶνδε τῶν κατευγμάτων πέμψω τε φέγγει λαμπάδων σελασφόρων εἰσ τοὺσ ἔνερθε καὶ κατὰ χθονὸσ τόπουσ ξὺν προσπόλοισιν, αἵτε φρουροῦσιν βρέτασ τοὐμὸν δικαίωσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode1)
  • ἰὼ πατρῷον οὖδασ Ἀργείασ χθονόσ, δεκάτου σε φέγγει τῷδ’ ἀφικόμην ἔτουσ, πολλῶν ῥαγεισῶν ἐλπίδων μιᾶσ τυχών. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode5)
  • Ἀντιφῶν ἰδίῳ φέγγει λάμπειν τὴν σελήνην, τὸ δ’ ἀποκρυπτόμενον περὶ αὐτὴν ὑπὸ τῆσ προσβολῆσ τοῦ ἡλίου ἀμαυροῦσθαι, πεφυκότοσ τοῦ ἰσχυροτέρου πυρὸσ τὸ ἀσθενέστερον ἀμαυροῦν· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 2, 1:2)
  • Ὦ τὸν ἀγήραντον πόλον αἰθέροσ Ἥλιε τέμνων, ἆρ’ εἶδεσ τοιόνδ’ ὄμματι πρόσθε πάθοσ, μητέρα παρθενικήν τε κόρην δισσούσ τε συναίμουσ ἐν ταὐτῷ φέγγει μοιραδίῳ φθιμένουσ; (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 6)

Synonyms

  1. the light

  2. the light

  3. the light

  4. 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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