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φημί

-μι athematic Verb; 전접어 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φημί φήσω ἔφησα

Structure: φα (Stem) + ̄μί (Ending)

Etym.: Root FA, cf. fa/w

Sense

  1. I speak, say.

Note

현재 직설법 중 2인칭 단수를 제외하고 나머지는 모두 전접어임.

Conjugation

Present tense

Future tense

Imperfect tense

Active
1st person2nd person3rd person
IndicativeSingular ε͂̓φην ε͂̓φης ε͂̓φην*
Dual έ̓φατον ἐφάτην
Plural έ̓φαμεν έ̓φατε έ̓φασαν

Aorist 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

  • ἐξόπισθε νῦν αὐτὸ φάθι τοῦ μόλωμεν. (Aristotle, Prologue 1:23)
  • παραλιπὼν ὕδωρ φάθι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 70 4:10)
  • μήτ’ ἀδίκουσ μήτ’ ἐξ ἀδίκων φάθι λεύσσειν. (Theocritus, Idylls, 30)
  • φάθι. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 30:13)
  • ἀλλὰ τρίτον φάθι με λέγειν, ἓν τοῦτο τιθέντα τὸ τούτων ἔκγονον ἅπαν, γένεσιν εἰσ οὐσίαν ἐκ τῶν μετὰ τοῦ πέρατοσ ἀπειργασμένων μέτρων. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 95:5)

Synonyms

  1. I speak

Derived

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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