φενακισμός

φενακισμός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φενᾱκῐ́ζω (phenākízō, “to cheat, trick”) +‎ -μός (-mós).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰe.naː.kiz.mós/ → /ɸe.na.cizˈmos/ → /fe.na.cizˈmos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰe.naː.kiz.mós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰe.na.kizˈmos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸe.na.cizˈmos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fe.na.cizˈmos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fe.na.cizˈmos/

Noun

φενᾱκῐσμός • (phenākismós) m (genitive φενᾱκῐσμοῦ); second declension

1. cheating, quackery, imposition

Inflection

Second declension of ὁ φενᾱκῐσμός; τοῦ φενᾱκῐσμοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φενᾱκῐσμός ho phenākismós	τὼ φενᾱκῐσμώ tṑ phenākismṓ	οἱ φενᾱκῐσμοί hoi phenākismoí
Genitive	τοῦ φενᾱκῐσμοῦ toû phenākismoû	τοῖν φενᾱκῐσμοῖν toîn phenākismoîn	τῶν φενᾱκῐσμῶν tôn phenākismôn
Dative	τῷ φενᾱκῐσμῷ tôi phenākismôi	τοῖν φενᾱκῐσμοῖν toîn phenākismoîn	τοῖς φενᾱκῐσμοῖς toîs phenākismoîs
Accusative	τὸν φενᾱκῐσμόν tòn phenākismón	τὼ φενᾱκῐσμώ tṑ phenākismṓ	τοὺς φενᾱκῐσμούς toùs phenākismoús
Vocative	φενᾱκῐσμέ phenākismé	φενᾱκῐσμώ phenākismṓ	φενᾱκῐσμοί phenākismoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Further reading

• “φενακισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φενακισμός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φενακισμός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette