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φήνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φήνη

Structure: φην (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. sea-eagle

Declension

First 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

  • ἤδη δὲ παντάπασι χαλεπὸσ ὢν ὀργὴν διὰ τὴν μελαγχολίαν ἐπιτείνουσαν εἰσ γῆρασ, παρώξυνε τοὺσ ἐφόρουσ καὶ συνέπεισε φῆναι φρουρὰν ἐπ’ αὐτούσ, καὶ λαβὼν τὴν ἡγεμονίαν ἐξεστράτευσεν. (Plutarch, , chapter 28 1:1)
  • ᾐτέομεν δὲ θεὸν φῆναι τέρασ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 16:18)
  • ὣσ ἄρα φωνήσασ’ ἀπέβη γλαυκῶπισ Ἀθήνη φήνῃ εἰδομένη· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 3 35:1)
  • κλαῖον δὲ λιγέωσ, ἀδινώτερον ἤ τ’ οἰωνοί, φῆναι ἢ αἰγυπιοὶ γαμψώνυχεσ, οἷσί τε τέκνα ἀγρόται ἐξείλοντο πάροσ πετεηνὰ γενέσθαι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 16 26:2)
  • ὡσ ὦν Περσέων μετεξέτεροι λέγουσι, οἱ μὴ βουλόμενοι σεμνοῦν τὰ περὶ Κῦρον ἀλλὰ τὸν ἐόντα λέγειν λόγον, κατὰ ταῦτα γράψω, ἐπιστάμενοσ περὶ Κύρου καὶ τριφασίασ ἄλλασ λόγων ὁδοὺσ φῆναι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 95 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. sea-eagle

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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