φηγός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms
  • φᾱγός (phāgós) – Doric

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *pʰāgós, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos. Cognates include Latin fāgus, Old English bēċe, Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 (boka, “beech”), Armenian բոխի (boxi, “hornbeam”).

Pronunciation
 

Noun

φηγός • (phēgós) f (genitive φηγοῦ); second declension

  1. oak
  2. acorn

Inflection
Second declension of ὁ φηγός; τοῦ φηγοῦ (Attic)
Case / # Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὁ φηγός
ho phēgós		 τὼ φηγώ
tṑ phēgṓ		 οἱ φηγοί
hoi phēgoí
Genitive τοῦ φηγοῦ
toû phēgoû		 τοῖν φηγοῖν
toîn phēgoîn		 τῶν φηγῶν
tôn phēgôn
Dative τῷ φηγῷ
tôi phēgôi		 τοῖν φηγοῖν
toîn phēgoîn		 τοῖς φηγοῖς
toîs phēgoîs
Accusative τὸν φηγόν
tòn phēgón		 τὼ φηγώ
tṑ phēgṓ		 τοὺς φηγούς
toùs phēgoús
Vocative φηγέ
phēgé		 φηγώ
phēgṓ		 φηγοί
phēgoí
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

Further reading
  • φηγός in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • φηγός in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • φηγός in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • φηγός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
  • φηγός in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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