φαγεῖν

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰa.ɡêːn/ → /ɸaˈʝin/ → /faˈʝin/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰa.ɡêːn/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰaˈɡin/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸaˈʝin/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /faˈʝin/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /faˈʝin/

Verb

φᾰγεῖν • (phăgeîn)

1. aorist active infinitive of ἐσθῐ́ω (esthĭ́ō) and ἔφᾰγον (éphăgon)

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: φαγίν (phagín)
  • Greek: φαΐ (faḯ), φαγί (fagí)

Further reading

• “φαγεῖν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φαγεῖν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “φαγεῖν” in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• “φαγεῖν”, in Slater, William J. (1969), Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter