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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Probably a substrate word related to φακός (phakós, “lentil”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.pʰá.kɛː/ → /aˈɸa.ci/ → /aˈfa.ci/
Noun
ἀφάκη • (aphákē) f (genitive ἀφάκης); first declension
- vetch (Vicia sativa)
- dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
Inflection
Descendants
Further reading
- “ἀφάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀφάκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- ἀφάκη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, p. 175