Φειδίας
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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φείδομαι (pheídomai, “I spare”) + -ίας (-ías, “male name suffix”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰeː.dí.aːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /pʰiˈdi.as/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɸiˈði.as/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /fiˈði.as/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /fiˈði.as/
Proper noun
Φειδῐ́ᾱς • (Pheidíās) m (genitive Φειδῐ́ου); first declension
- a male given name: Pheidias; Phidias
- in particular, the 5th century BCE Greek sculptor and architect Phidias
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Φειδῐ́ᾱς ho Pheidíās | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Φειδῐ́ου toû Pheidíou | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Φειδῐ́ᾳ tôi Pheidíāi | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Φειδῐ́ᾱν tòn Pheidíān | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Φειδῐ́ᾱ Pheidíā | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Φειδιακός (Pheidiakós)
Descendants
References
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021