φηγός
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- φᾱγός (phāgós) – Doric
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *pʰāgós, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos. Cognates include Latin fāgus, Old English bēċe (whence English beech), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 (bōka, “beech”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰɛː.ɡós/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰe̝ˈɡos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸiˈɣos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fiˈɣos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fiˈɣos/
Noun
φηγός • (phēgós) f (genitive φηγοῦ); second declension
- oak
- acorn
Inflection
Second declension of ὁ φηγός; τοῦ φηγοῦ (Attic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ φηγός ho phēgós | τὼ φηγώ tṑ phēgṓ | οἱ φηγοί hoi phēgoí | ||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ φηγοῦ toû phēgoû | τοῖν φηγοῖν toîn phēgoîn | τῶν φηγῶν tôn phēgôn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῷ φηγῷ tôi phēgôi | τοῖν φηγοῖν toîn phēgoîn | τοῖς φηγοῖς toîs phēgoîs | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν φηγόν tòn phēgón | τὼ φηγώ tṑ phēgṓ | τοὺς φηγούς toùs phēgoús | ||||||||||
Vocative | φηγέ phēgé | φηγώ phēgṓ | φηγοί phēgoí | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Φηγεύς (Phēgeús)
- φήγινος (phḗginos)
- Φηγοῦς (Phēgoûs)
Descendants
- → Armenian: փեկոն (pʿekon)
Further reading
- “φηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φηγός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φηγός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φηγός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- beech idem, page 69.
- beech-nut idem, page 69.