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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

  • ὦ τέκν’, ὁ φύσασ καὶ τεκὼν ὑμᾶσ πατὴρ ἀπώλεσ’, οὐδ’ ὤνασθε τῶν ἐμῶν καλῶν, ἁγὼ παρεσκεύαζον ἐκμοχθῶν βίᾳ εὔκλειαν ὑμῖν, πατρὸσ ἀπόλαυσιν καλήν. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 4:16)
  • παῖδα σὴν πατὴρ ὁ φύσασ αὐτόχειρ μέλλει κτενεῖν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees26)
  • ὄνομα μὲν ἡμῖν Τεῦκροσ, ὁ δὲ φύσασ πατὴρ Τελαμών, Σαλαμὶσ δὲ πατρὶσ ἡ θρέψασά με. (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:19)
  • Τελαμὼν ὁ φύσασ. (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:24)
  • θοἰμάτιον ἀπενέγκαιμι μὴ φύσασ πτερά. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 63 5:1)
  • εἰπέ μοι, τί δεινὰ φυσᾷσ αἱματηρὸν ὄμμ’ ἔχων; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, trochees 3:3)

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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