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φύσας

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φύσας

Structure: φυς (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. a father;

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

  • ἠρέμα οὖν καὶ κατ’ ὀλίγον, ὥσπερ ἐν ἀμυδρῷ τῷ φωτὶ τότε πρῶτον διαβλέπων, ἄρχῃ κατανοεῖν ὡσ αἱ μὲν χρυσαῖ ἐκεῖναι ἐλπίδεσ οὐδὲν ἀλλ’ ἢ φῦσαί τινεσ ἦσαν ἐπίχρυσοι, βαρεῖσ δὲ καὶ ἀληθεῖσ καὶ ἀπαραίτητοι καὶ συνεχεῖσ οἱ πόνοι. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 22:1)
  • οὐδέν ἐστ’ ἄμεινον οὐδ’ ἥδιον ἢ φῦσαι πτερά. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, antepirrheme1)
  • τῆσ οὖν πέψεωσ οὐχ ὁμαλιζούσησ, ἀλλὰ τῶν μὲν σαρκῶν ἄγαν ταχὺ πεττομένων, τῆσ δὲ ἀκάνθησ σχολῇ διαλυομένησ καὶ γὰρ ἅμα αἱ ἀφύαι καθ’ αὑτὰσ ἀκανθώδεισ ἐμποδισμὸσ αὐτῶν ἑκατέρου γίγνεται περὶ τὴν κατεργασίαν, εἶτα φῦσαι μὲν ἀπὸ τῆσ πέψεωσ, ὑγρασίαι δὲ ἀπὸ τῆσ τροφῆσ συμβαίνουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 552)
  • "πρὸσ Λακεδαιμονίουσ, ὡρ́α σοι ταχύνειν πρὸ τοῦ κέντρα φῦσαι τοῦτον τὸν νεοσσόν. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 4 3:1)
  • ὁ δέ, καίπερ ἁπάντων τοῦτο πράττειν κελευόντων, μόνοσ ἀπηγόρευσεν, εἰπὼν ὡσ μᾶλλον, εἰ δυνατὸν ἦν, ἔδει φῦσαι τῷ βασιλεῖ πλείονασ ἀδελφοὺσ πρὸσ ἀσφάλειαν καὶ διαμονὴν τῶν πραγμάτων. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 33 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a father

Related

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

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