φάος

Ancient Greek

Compare φαεινός (phaeinós), φάω (pháō), and φαίνω (phaínō). Cognates include Latin iubar (“radiance, light”); Sanskrit भास् (bhās, “light, brilliance”) and भास (bhāsa, “luster, light”); and Old English basu (“purple”).

φάος • (pháos) n (genitive φᾰ́εος); third declension

light, especially daylight
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 23.371
1. the light of a torch, fire, a light
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.24
2. of the light or time of day
  - 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 21.429
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 1.605
- 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 515E
(poetic) the life of men
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.61
- 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Works and Days 153
a day
- c. 440 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 447
the light of the eyes
- 522 BCE – 443 BCE, Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.75
a window
- 46 CE – 120 CE, Plutarch, Moralia 2.515B
(figurative or poetic) delight, deliverance, happiness, victory, glory, etc.
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 17.615
- 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 6.6
the dark ring around the nipple, areola
- ante 177 CE, Pollux, Onomasticon 2.163

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φᾰ́ος tò pháos	τὼ φᾰ́εε tṑ pháee	τᾰ̀ φᾰ́εᾰ tà pháea
Genitive	τοῦ φᾰ́εος toû pháeos	τοῖν φᾰέοιν toîn phaéoin	τῶν φᾰέων tôn phaéōn
Dative	τῷ φᾰ́εῐ̈ tôi pháeï	τοῖν φᾰέοιν toîn phaéoin	τοῖς φᾰ́εσῐ / φᾰ́εσῐν toîs pháesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ φᾰ́ος tò pháos	τὼ φᾰ́εε tṑ pháee	τᾰ̀ φᾰ́εᾰ tà pháea
Vocative	φᾰ́ος pháos	φᾰ́εε pháee	φᾰ́εᾰ pháea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φάος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1551-2

“φάος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“φάος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
“φάος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
φάος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
φάος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
“φάος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- blaze idem, page 82.
- darling idem, page 195.
- daylight idem, page 197.
- flame idem, page 325.
- glimmer idem, page 362.
- glory idem, page 363.
- glow idem, page 363.
- jewel idem, page 463.
- light idem, page 490.
- loadstar idem, page 496.
- pet idem, page 609.
- pride idem, page 640.
- treasure idem, page 891.
“φάος”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011