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φθόγγος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φθόγγος φθόγγου

Structure: φθογγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a sound or voice

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φθόγγος φθόγγω φθόγγοι
Genitive φθόγγου φθόγγοιν φθόγγων
Dative φθόγγῳ φθόγγοιν φθόγγοις
Accusative φθόγγον φθόγγω φθόγγους
Vocative φθόγγε φθόγγω φθόγγοι

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

  • λωτὸσ δὲ φθόγγον κελάδει κάλλιστον, Μουσᾶν θεράπων· (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • ὦ φίλη, ὦ ξουθή, ὦ φίλτατον ὀρνέων πάντων, ξύννομε τῶν ἐμῶν ὕμνων, ξύντροφ’ ἀηδοῖ, ἦλθεσ ἦλθεσ ὤφθησ, ἡδὺν φθόγγον ἐμοὶ φέρουσ’. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, prelude1)
  • ἐδόκει κύνα θυμουμένην ὑλακτεῖν πρὸσ αὐτόν, ἐκ δὲ τῆσ ὑλακῆσ μεμιγμένον ἀφεῖσαν ἀνθρώπου φθόγγον εἰπεῖν· (Plutarch, , chapter 18 3:1)
  • τὴν δὲ κοινὴν καὶ περιηγητικὴν δόξαν εἰσ τὸ μέσον προῆγον, οὔτε τὴν ὄψιν ἀξιοῦντεσ οὔτε τὸν φθόγγον ἀλλὰ τοὔνομα μόνον τοῦ γράμματοσ ἔχειν τι σύμβολον. (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 4 4:2)
  • ἅλμαν δ’ ὕπερθεν τεᾶν κομᾶν βαθεῖαν παριόντοσ κύματοσ οὐκ ἀλέγεισ οὐδ’ ἀνέμου φθόγγον, πορφυρέᾳ κείμενοσ ἐν χλανίδι πρὸσ κόλπῳ καλὸν πρόσωπον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2643)

Synonyms

  1. a sound or voice

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