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φύσας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φύσας

Structure: φυς (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: aor1 part. of φύω, φύσω, ἔφυσα, πέφυκα, ,

Sense

  1. a father;

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φύσας φύσᾱ φύσαι
Genitive φύσου φύσαιν φυσῶν
Dative φύσῃ φύσαιν φύσαις
Accusative φύσην φύσᾱ φύσᾱς
Vocative φύσα φύσᾱ φύσαι

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

  • φύσα τὴν γνάθον τὴν δεξιάν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 2:21)
  • ὅταν ἐσ ταύτασ ἄνεμοσ ξηρὸσ μετεωρισθεὶσ κατακλῃσθῇ, ἔνδοθεν αὐτὰσ ὥσπερ κύστιν φυσᾷ, κἄπειθ’ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ ῥήξασ αὐτὰσ ἔξω φέρεται σοβαρὸσ διὰ τὴν πυκνότητα, ὑπὸ τοῦ ῥοίβδου καὶ τῆσ ῥύμησ αὐτὸσ ἑαυτὸν κατακάων. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Choral, anapests 1:14)
  • ἔτνοσ κυάμινον διότι τὴν μὲν γαστέρα φυσᾷ, τὸ δὲ πῦρ οὔ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 74 1:5)
  • πολυέτη τὴν ἀποδημίαν ἔχων, νάρκη μὲν ἡ ἡδίστη, χοῖροσ, σῖμοσ, φάγροσ, ὀξύρυγχοσ, ἀλλάβησ, σίλουροσ, συνοδοντίσ, ἐλέωτρισ, ἔγχελυσ, θρίσσα, ἄβραμισ, τύφλη, λεπιδωτόσ, φῦσα, κεστρεύσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 88 3:1)
  • ἢν δὲ καὶ ἐπιδειπνήσωσι, καὶ φῦσα καὶ στρόφοσ καὶ ἡ κοιλίη καταρρήγνυται. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, , x.8)

Synonyms

  1. a father

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

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