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Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *pʰāgós, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos. Cognates include Latin fāgus, Old English bēċe (whence English beech), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 (bōka, “beech”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰɛː.ɡós/ → /ɸiˈɣos/ → /fiˈɣos/
Noun
φηγός • (phēgós) f (genitive φηγοῦ); second declension
- oak
- acorn
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Old Armenian: փեկոն (pʻekon)
Further reading
- “φηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φηγός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φηγός”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φηγός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φηγός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.