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Ancient Greek
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰy̌ː.san.tes/ → /ˈɸy.san.tes/ → /ˈfi.san.des/
Etymology 1
Participle
φῡ́σαντες • (phū́santes)
- masculine nominative/vocative plural of φῡ́σᾱς (phū́sās): "(they) have brought forth/produced/generated/begot; (they) have created/made"
Etymology 2
Substantivization/nominalization of the participle form φῡ́σαντες (phū́santes), the nominative/vocative plural of φῡ́σᾱς (phū́sās).
Noun
φῡ́σαντες • (phū́santes)
- (literally) they who have brought forth/produced/generated/begot; they who have created/made
- (metonymically, generally with the definite article present):
- (in the marked state): fathers, forefathers/(male) ancestors
- (in the unmarked state): parents, ancestors
- φῡ́σᾱς (phū́sās, “father/forefather/ancestor”)
- φῡ́ς (phū́s, “son/child/descendant”)
References
- “φύσαντες”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers