φέναξ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰé.naːks/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰe.naks/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸe.naks/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfe.naks/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfe.naks/
Noun
φένᾱξ • (phénāx) m (genitive φένᾱκος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ φένᾱξ ho phénāx |
τὼ φένᾱκε tṑ phénāke |
οἱ φένᾱκες hoi phénākes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ φένᾱκος toû phénākos |
τοῖν φενᾱ́κοιν toîn phenā́koin |
τῶν φενᾱ́κων tôn phenā́kōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ φένᾱκῐ tōî phénākĭ |
τοῖν φενᾱ́κοιν toîn phenā́koin |
τοῖς φένᾱξῐ / φένᾱξῐν toîs phénāxĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν φένᾱκᾰ tòn phénākă |
τὼ φένᾱκε tṑ phénāke |
τοὺς φένᾱκᾰς toùs phénākăs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φένᾱξ phénāx |
φένᾱκε phénāke |
φένᾱκες phénākes | ||||||||||
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Derived terms
- φένᾰγμᾰ (phénăgmă)
- φενᾱ́κη (phenā́kē)
- φενᾱκῐ́ζω (phenākĭ́zō)
- φενᾱκῐ́σμᾰτᾰ (phenākĭ́smătă)
- φενᾱκῐσμός (phenākĭsmós)
- φενᾱκῐστής (phenākĭstḗs)
- φενᾱκῐστῐκός (phenākĭstĭkós)
Descendants
- → Translingual: Phenax
Further reading
- “φέναξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φέναξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φέναξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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