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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, of Pre-Greek origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰé.naːks/ → /ˈɸe.naks/ → /ˈfe.naks/
Noun
φένᾱξ • (phénāx) m (genitive φένᾱκος); third declension
- cheat, quack, impostor
Inflection
Derived terms
Further reading
- “φέναξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φέναξ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- φέναξ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- 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