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φοῖνιξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοῖνιξ φοῖνικος

Structure: φοινικ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. purple or crimson
  2. palm tree
  3. date (the fruit of the date palm)
  4. phoenix, the mythical bird derived from Egyptian mythology
  5. A guitar-like instrument invented by the Phoenicians

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

  • καὶ ὅσον ἐπὶ τῇ γῇ, βαθεῖ λιμῷ ἀεὶ συνῆμεν ἄν, τὸ δ’ ἱερὸν καὶ ὁ Πύθιοσ καὶ τὸ χρηστήριον καὶ οἱ θύοντεσ καὶ οἱ εὐσεβοῦντεσ, ταῦτα Δελφῶν τὰ πεδία, ταῦτα ἡ πρόσοδοσ, ἐντεῦθεν ἡ εὐπορία, ἐντεῦθεν αἱ τροφαὶ ‐ χρὴ γὰρ τἀληθῆ πρόσ γε ἡμᾶσ αὐτοὺσ λέγειν ‐ καὶ τὸ λεγόμενον ὑπὸ τῶν ποιητῶν, ἄσπαρτα ἡμῖν καὶ ἀνήροτα φύεται τὰ πάντα ’ὑπὸ γεωργῷ τῷ θεῷ, ὃσ οὐ μόνον τὰ παρὰ τοῖσ Ἕλλησιν ἀγαθὰ γιγνόμενα παρέχει, ἀλλ’ εἴ τι ἐν Φρυξὶν ἢ Λυδοῖσ ἢ Πέρσαισ ἢ Ἀσσυρίοισ ἢ Φοίνιξιν ἢ Ἰταλιώταισ ἢ Ὑπερβορέοισ αὐτοῖσ, πάντα ἐσ Δελφοὺσ ἀφικνεῖται. (Lucian, Phalaris, book 2 8:4)
  • "τῶν δὲ κιόνων οἱ μὲν τέσσαρεσ ὡμοίωντο φοίνιξιν, οἱ δ’ ἀνὰ μέσον θύρσων εἶχον φαντασίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:76)
  • ὁ δὲ Τρύφων φησὶ καὶ τοὺσ καλουμένουσ ἐλεφαντίνουσ αὐλοὺσ παρὰ Φοίνιξιν ἀνατρηθῆναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 80 2:3)
  • τὰ μέντοι παρ’ Αἰγυπτίοισ τε καὶ Χαλδαίοισ καὶ Φοίνιξιν, ἐῶ γὰρ νῦν ἡμᾶσ ἐκείνοισ συγκαταλέγειν, αὐτοὶ δήπουθεν ὁμολογοῦσιν ἀρχαιοτάτην τε καὶ μονιμωτάτην ἔχειν τῆσ μνήμησ τὴν παράδοσιν· (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 10:1)
  • Βούλομαι τοίνυν ἀπὸ τούτων ἤδη μετελθεῖν ἐπὶ τὰ παρὰ τοῖσ Φοίνιξιν ἀναγεγραμμένα περὶ τοῦ γένουσ ἡμῶν καὶ τὰσ ἐξ ἐκείνων μαρτυρίασ παρασχεῖν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 123:1)

Synonyms

  1. palm tree

Similar forms

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

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