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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

  • εἶπα δέ. ἡ ἡλικία μου γηράσει ὥσπερ στέλεχοσ φοίνικοσ, πολὺν χρόνον βιώσω. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 29:18)
  • συστήσαντοσ δέ μοι Πυθοδώρου τοῦ Φοίνικοσ Πασίωνα ἐχρώμην τῇ τούτου τραπέζῃ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 19 2:3)
  • εἰ καί σε κεδνὰ τέκεν λέχει Διὸσ ὑπὸ κρόταφον Ἴδασ μιγεῖσα Φοίνικοσ ἐρα‐ τώνυμοσ κόρα βροτῶν φέρτατον, ἀλλὰ κἀμὲ Πιτθέοσ θυγάτηρ ἀφνεοῦ πλαθεῖσα ποντίῳ τέκεν Ποσειδᾶνι, χρύσεον τέ ϝοι δόσαν ἰόπλοκοι κάλυμμα Νηρηί̈δεσ. (Bacchylides, , dithyrambs, ode 17 2:3)
  • τὰ τοῦ τυφλοῦ Φοίνικοσ; (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:18)
  • οὐ Φοίνικοσ, οὔ· (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, iambics 2:19)

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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