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φθογγή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φθογγή

Structure: φθογγ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: = fqo/ggos, Hom., etc.

Sense

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

  • "οὐδὲ σκότον φρίσσουσι τὸν συνεργάτην τέρεμνὰ τ’ οἴκων μή ποτε φθογγὴν ἀφῇ. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 28:1)
  • οἶκοσ δ’ αὐτόσ, εἰ φθογγὴν λάβοι, σαφέστατ’ ἂν λέξειεν· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 5:4)
  • τοὺσ δ’ ὀλοὸν μεσσηγὺ δέοσ λάβεν εἰσαϊόντασ φθογγήν τε Ζηνόσ τε βαρὺν χόλον. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 10:16)
  • εἰσ τὸ αὐτό ἠχὼ πετρήεσσαν ὁρᾷσ, φίλε, Πανὸσ ἑταίρην, ἀντίτυπον φθογγὴν ἔμπαλιν ᾀδομένην, παντοίων στομάτων λάλον εἰκόνα, ποιμέσιν ἡδὺ παίγνιον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 1541)
  • εἰήν καὶ κίχλη καὶ κόσσυφοσ, ὡσ ἂν ἐκείνου ἐν χερὶ καὶ φθογγὴν καὶ γλυκὺ δάκρν βάλω. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 142 1:1)

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

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