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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φείδομαι (pheídomai, “I spare”) + -ίας (-ías, “male name suffix”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰeː.dí.aːs/ → /ɸiˈði.as/ → /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
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References
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021