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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”), like φανός (phanós, “bright, shining”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰa.nɛ̌ː/ → /ɸaˈni/ → /faˈni/
Noun
φᾰνή • (phanḗ) f (genitive φᾰνῆς); first declension
- torch, firebrand
- Synonyms: γράβιον (grábion), γρυνός (grunós), δαΐς (daḯs), δᾰ́ος (dáos), ἑλένη (helénē), λαμπάς (lampás), λοφνίς (lophnís), πανός (panós), πυρσός (pursós), φρῠκτός (phruktós)
- (in the plural) torch-processions
Declension
Further reading
- “φανή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- φανή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- “φανή”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011