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φοῖνιξ?

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: phoinix

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 φοίνιξι(ν)
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

  • δίκαιος ὡς φοῖνιξ ἀνθήσει, ὡσεὶ ἡ κέδρος ἡ ἐν τῷ Λιβάνῳ πληθυνθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 91:13)
  • ὡς φοῖνιξ ἀνυψώθην ἐν αἰγιαλοῖς καὶ ὡς φυτὰ ρόδου ἐν Ἱεριχώ, ὡς ἐλαία εὐπρεπὴς ἐν πεδίῳ, καὶ ἀνυψώθην ὡς πλάτανος. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 24:14)
  • ἡ ἄμπελος ἐξηράνθη, καὶ αἱ συκαῖ ὠλιγώθησαν. ρόα καὶ φοῖνιξ καὶ μῆλον καί πάντα τὰ ξύλα τοῦ ἀγροῦ ἐξηράνθησαν, ὅτι ᾔσχυναν χαρὰν οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 1:12)
  • "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)
  • ὅτε δὲ μεταβαίην ἐπὶ τοὺς Σκύθας, πλανωμένους ἐπὶ τῶν ἁμαξῶν ἦν ἰδεῖν μικρὸν δ ἐγκλίνας ^ τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν ἐπὶ θάτερα τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους γεωργοῦντας ἐπέβλεπον, καὶ ὁ Φοῖνιξ ^ ἐνεπορεύετο καὶ ὁ Κίλιξ ἐλῄστευεν καὶ ὁ Λάκων ἐμαστιγοῦτο καὶ ὁ Ἀθηναῖος ἐδικάζετο. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 16:10)

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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