φώς

See also: φως and φῶς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

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Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ːs/ → /ɸos/ → /fos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̌ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fos/

Noun

φώς • (phṓs) m (genitive φωτός); third declension

1. man, mortal

   Synonyms: θνητός (thnētós), ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos)

Inflection

Third declension of ὁ φώς; τοῦ φωτός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φώς ho phṓs	τὼ φῶτε tṑ phôte	οἱ φῶτες hoi phôtes
Genitive	τοῦ φωτός toû phōtós	τοῖν φωτοῖν toîn phōtoîn	τῶν φωτῶν tôn phōtôn
Dative	τῷ φωτῐ́ tôi phōtí	τοῖν φωτοῖν toîn phōtoîn	τοῖς φωσῐ́ / φωσῐ́ν toîs phōsí(n)
Accusative	τὸν φῶτᾰ tòn phôta	τὼ φῶτε tṑ phôte	τοὺς φῶτᾰς toùs phôtas
Vocative	φώς phṓs	φῶτε phôte	φῶτες phôtes
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension. Nominative singular -ς (-s) arose by reduction of the original cluster *-ts.

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • being idem, page 72.
  • hero idem, page 397.
  • man idem, page 510.
  • wight idem, page 979.