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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *pʰugā́, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugéh₂. Equivalent to φεύγω (pheúgō, “flee”) + -η (-ē, action noun suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰy.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /ɸyˈʝi/ → /fiˈʝi/
Noun
φῠγή • (phugḗ) f (genitive φῠγῆς); first declension
- flight, retreat, escape
- exile, banishment
Inflection
Further reading
- “φυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φυγή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φυγή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- φυγή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- G5437 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- avoidance of idem, page 55.
- banishment idem, page 61.
- disappearance idem, page 227.
- escape idem, page 282.
- exile idem, page 292.
- flight idem, page 327.
- outlawry idem, page 582.
- proscription idem, page 653.
- refusal idem, page 685.
- rejection idem, page 688.
- repudiation idem, page 699.
- stampede idem, page 810.
- transportation idem, page 889.