Φόρκυς
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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
- Φόρκος (Phórkos)
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pʰór.kyːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpʰor.kys/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈɸor.cys/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈfor.cys/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈfor.cis/
Proper noun
Φόρκῡς • (Phórkūs) m (genitive Φόρκῠος); third declension
Inflection
| Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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| Nominative | ὁ Φόρκῡς ho Phórkūs | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | τοῦ Φόρκῠος toû Phórkuos | ||||||||||||
| Dative | τῷ Φόρκῠῐ̈ / Φόρκυι tôi Phórkuï / Phórkui | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | τὸν Φόρκῡν tòn Phórkūn | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | Φόρκῡ Phórkū | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Φορκῐ́ς (Phorkís)
Descendants
References
- “Φόρκυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Φόρκυς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Φόρκυς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022