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φῦσα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φῦσα φῦσης

Structure: φυς (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pair of bellows, bellows
  2. a wind, blast, wind in the stomach
  3. a stream or jet
  4. an air-bubble

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

  • ἔπειτα φυσᾶν δυστυχὴσ οὐκ ἠδύνω; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 59 2:4)
  • "ὡσ οὐ στρατηγὸσ πᾶσ καλεῖθ’ ὃσ ἂν λάβῃ δύναμιν, ὁ μέντοι δυνάμενοσ κἀν πράγμασιν ἀναστραφῆναι καὶ διαβλέψαι τί που στρατηγόσ ἐστιν, ἡγεμὼν δὲ θάτερον, οὕτωσ ἐφ’ ἡμῖν σκευάσαι μὲν ἢ τεμεῖν ἡδύσμαθ’ ἑψῆσαί τε καὶ φυσᾶν τὸ πῦρ ὁ τυχὼν δύναιτ’ ἄν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 68 1:32)
  • δεῖ δ’ αὐτοὺσ μηδὲ τοῖσ ἐγκωμίοισ ἐπαίρειν καὶ φυσᾶν· (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 12 4:1)
  • ὅσα δὲ φῦσάν τε καὶ ἀνειλήματα ἀπεργάζεται ἐν τῷ σώματι, προσήκει ἐν μὲν τοῖσι κοίλοισι καὶ εὐρυχώροισι, οἱο͂ν κοιλίῃ τε καὶ θώρηκι, ψόφον τε καὶ πάταγον ἐμποιεῖν. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , xxii.17)
  • λάμπετο δὲ φλὸξ τηλόσε φῦσαν ἱεῖσα πυρὸσ μέγα δαιομένοιο. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 12:13)

Synonyms

  1. a pair of bellows

  2. a stream or jet

  3. an air-bubble

Related

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

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