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Ancient Greek
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰɔ̌ːs/ → /ɸos/ → /fos/
Noun
φώς • (phṓs) m (genitive φωτός); third declension
- man, mortal
- Synonyms: θνητός (thnētós), ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos)
Inflection
References
- “φώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “φώς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “φώς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φώς in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φώς in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “φώς”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.