φῆμις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-mis, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to speak”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰɛ̂ː.mis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰe̝.mis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸi.mis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfi.mis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfi.mis/
Noun
φῆμῐς • (phêmis) f (genitive φήμῐος); first declension (poetic)
- speech, talk
- fame, reputation
Inflection
Third declension of φῆμῐς; φήμῐος (Epic)
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | φῆμῐς phêmis | φήμῐε phḗmie | φήμῐες / φήμηες phḗmies / phḗmēes | ||||||||||
Genitive | φήμῐος / φήμηος phḗmios / phḗmēos | φημῐ́οιῐν phēmíoiin | φημῐ́ων phēmíōn | ||||||||||
Dative | φήμῐῐ / φήμῑ / φήμηῐ̈ / φήμει phḗmii / phḗmī / phḗmēï / phḗmei | φημῐ́οιῐν phēmíoiin | φημῐ́εσσῐ / φημῐ́εσσῐν / φήμεσῐ / φήμεσῐν / φήμῐσῐ / φήμῐσῐν phēmíessi(n) / phḗmesi(n) / phḗmisi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | φῆμῐν phêmin | φήμῐε phḗmie | φήμῐᾰς / φήμηᾰς / φήμῑς phḗmias / phḗmēas / phḗmīs | ||||||||||
Vocative | φῆμῐ phêmi | φήμῐε phḗmie | φήμῐες / φήμηες phḗmies / phḗmēes | ||||||||||
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Related terms
- φήμη (phḗmē)
- φημί (phēmí)
Further reading
- “φῆμις”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φῆμις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φῆμις in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “φῆμις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press