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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From φύω (phúō, “to grow, to be . . . by nature”) + -η (-ē, nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pʰy.ɛ̌ː/ → /ɸyˈi/ → /fiˈi/
Noun
φῠή • (phŭḗ) f (genitive φῠῆς); first declension
- (of human) Growth, stature, especially fine growth or noble stature.
- (of animals, plants, objects) Original form.
- (poetic) Nature, genius.
- The flower or prime of age.
- Substance.
- μερόπων φυή: the race of men.
- Produce of a year, harvest.
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Further reading
- “φυή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- φυή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- φυή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- “φυή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press