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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φοῖνιξ φοίνικε φοίνικες
Genitive φοίνικος φοινίκοιν φοινίκων
Dative φοίνικι φοινίκοιν φοίνιξιν*
Accusative φοίνικα φοίνικε φοίνικας
Vocative φοῖνιξ φοίνικε φοίνικες

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 αὐτὴ ἐκάθητο ὑπὸ φοίνικα Δεββώρα ἀνὰ μέσον τῆσ Ραμὰ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῆσ Βαιθὴλ ἐν τῷ ὄρει Ἐφραίμ, καὶ ἀνέβαινον πρὸσ αὐτὴν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ εἰσ κρίσιν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 4:5)
  • ἧκε πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα Δημήτριον πρώτῳ καὶ πεντηκοστῷ καὶ ἑκατοστῷ ἔτει προσάγων αὐτῷ στέφανον χρυσοῦν καὶ φοίνικα, πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ τῶν νομιζομένων θαλλῶν τοῦ ἱεροῦ, καὶ τὴν ἡμέραν ἐκείνην ἡσυχίαν ἔσχε. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 14:4)
  • πρόσωπον ἀνθρώπου πρὸσ τὸν φοίνικα ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν καὶ πρόσωπον λέοντοσ πρὸσ τὸν φοίνικα ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν. διαγεγλυμμένοσ ὅλοσ ὁ οἶκοσ κυκλόθεν, (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 41:19)
  • "ἤκουον δὲ ὡσ οὐδὲ Πρωτεὺσ ἔτι καλεῖσθαι ἀξιοῖ, ἀλλὰ Φοίνικα μετωνόμασεν ἑαυτόν, ὅτι καὶ φοῖνιξ, τὸ Ἰνδικὸν ὄρνεον, ἐπιβαίνειν πυρᾶσ λέγεται πορρωτάτω γήρωσ προβεβηκώσ. (Lucian, De morte Peregrini, (no name) 9:84)

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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