ἀφάκη
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably a substrate word related to φακός (phakós, “lentil”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /a.pʰá.kɛː/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈpʰa.ke̝/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈɸa.ci/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈfa.ci/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈfa.ci/
Noun
ἀφάκη • (aphákē) f (genitive ἀφάκης); first declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ ἀφάκη hē aphákē |
τὼ ἀφάκᾱ tṑ aphákā |
αἱ ἀφάκαι hai aphákai | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς ἀφάκης tês aphákēs |
τοῖν ἀφάκαιν toîn aphákain |
τῶν ἀφακῶν tôn aphakôn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ ἀφάκῃ tēî aphákēi |
τοῖν ἀφάκαιν toîn aphákain |
ταῖς ἀφάκαις taîs aphákais | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν ἀφάκην tḕn aphákēn |
τὼ ἀφάκᾱ tṑ aphákā |
τᾱ̀ς ἀφάκᾱς tā̀s aphákās | ||||||||||
| Vocative | ἀφάκη aphákē |
ἀφάκᾱ aphákā |
ἀφάκαι aphákai | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀφάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀφάκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀφάκη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- 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, p. 175