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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

  • 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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