φήνη
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- φίνις (phínis)
Etymology
The presence of an alternative form leads to a Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰɛ̌ː.nɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰe̝.ne̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸi.ni/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ni/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfi.ni/
Noun
φήνη • (phḗnē) f (genitive φήνης); first declension
- lammergeier, ossifrage (Gypaetus barbatus)
- Synonym: ὀστοκατεάκτης (ostokateáktēs)
Inflection
First declension of ἡ φήνη; τῆς φήνης (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ φήνη hē phḗnē | τὼ φήνᾱ tṑ phḗnā | αἱ φῆναι hai phênai | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς φήνης tês phḗnēs | τοῖν φήναιν toîn phḗnain | τῶν φηνῶν tôn phēnôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ φήνῃ têi phḗnēi | τοῖν φήναιν toîn phḗnain | ταῖς φήναις taîs phḗnais | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν φήνην tḕn phḗnēn | τὼ φήνᾱ tṑ phḗnā | τᾱ̀ς φήνᾱς tā̀s phḗnās | ||||||||||
Vocative | φήνη phḗnē | φήνᾱ phḗnā | φῆναι phênai | ||||||||||
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References
- “φήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φήνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φήνη”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φήνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φήνη in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN