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Ancient Greek
Etymology
Uncertain. In one proposed etymology the Ancient Greek name comes from the (unattested) Egyptian name for the island, corresponding to Coptic ⲫⲁⲣⲉϩ (phareh, “the guard”) = ⲫ- (ph-, “the”) + ⲁⲣⲉϩ (areh, “guard”);[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰá.ros/ → /ˈɸa.ros/ → /ˈfa.ros/
Proper noun
Φᾰ́ρος • (Phắros) f (genitive Φᾰ́ρου); second declension
- Pharos (a former island off Alexandria, Egypt)
Inflection
Proper noun
Φάρος • (Pháros) m
- The Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World[2]
Descendants
References
- ^ Paul Ernst Jablonski (1804) Opuscula, volume 1, Leyden: A. & J. Honkoop, page 377 ff.
- ^ Strabo (no later than 23 CE) “Chapter XVII, §§ 6 & 9”, in Geographica.
Further reading
- “Φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Φάρος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “Φάρος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021