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 • (phêmĭs) f (genitive φήμῐος); third declension (poetic)
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | φῆμῐς phêmĭs |
φήμῐε phḗmĭe |
φήμῐες / φήμηες phḗmĭes / phḗmēes | ||||||||||
| Genitive | φήμῐος / φήμηος phḗmĭos / phḗmēos |
φημῐ́οιν / φημῐ́οιῐν phēmĭ́oi(ĭ)n |
φημῐ́ων phēmĭ́ōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | φήμῐῐ / φήμῑ / φήμηῐ̈ / φήμει phḗmĭĭ / phḗmī / phḗmēĭ̈ / phḗmei |
φημῐ́οιν / φημῐ́οιῐν phēmĭ́oi(ĭ)n |
φημῐ́εσσῐ / φημῐ́εσσῐν / φήμεσῐ / φήμεσῐν / φήμῐσῐ / φήμῐσῐν phēmĭ́essĭ(n) / phḗmesĭ(n) / phḗmĭsĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | φῆμῐν phêmĭn |
φήμῐε phḗmĭe |
φήμῐᾰς / φήμηᾰς / φήμῑς phḗmĭăs / phḗmēăs / phḗmīs | ||||||||||
| Vocative | φῆμῐ phêmĭ |
φήμῐε phḗmĭe |
φήμῐες / φήμηες phḗmĭes / phḗmēes | ||||||||||
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Related terms
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