φακός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Allegedly an Illyrian doublet of φάσηλος (phásēlos), cognate to Albanian bathë (“fava bean”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰa.kós/ → /ɸaˈkos/ → /faˈkos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰa.kós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰaˈkos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸaˈkos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /faˈkos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /faˈkos/

Noun

φᾰκός • (phakós) m (genitive φᾰκοῦ); second declension

1. lentil bean
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Inflection

Second declension of ὁ φᾰκός; τοῦ φᾰκοῦ (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ὁ φᾰκός ho phakós	τὼ φᾰκώ tṑ phakṓ	οἱ φᾰκοί hoi phakoí
Genitive	τοῦ φᾰκοῦ toû phakoû	τοῖν φᾰκοῖν toîn phakoîn	τῶν φᾰκῶν tôn phakôn
Dative	τῷ φᾰκῷ tôi phakôi	τοῖν φᾰκοῖν toîn phakoîn	τοῖς φᾰκοῖς toîs phakoîs
Accusative	τὸν φᾰκόν tòn phakón	τὼ φᾰκώ tṑ phakṓ	τοὺς φᾰκούς toùs phakoús
Vocative	φᾰκέ phaké	φᾰκώ phakṓ	φᾰκοί phakoí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φάκινος (phákinos)

Further reading

• “φακός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φακός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φακός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • lentil idem, page 485.
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “φάσηλος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1556

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Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek φακός (phakós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.ˈkos/

Noun

φακός • (fakós) m (plural φακοί)

1. (optics) lens
2. torch (UK), flashlight (US)

Declension

Declension of φακός

	singular	plural
nominative	φακός •	φακοί •
genitive	φακού •	φακών •
accusative	φακό •	φακούς •
vocative	φακέ •	φακοί •

Related terms

• φακός επαφής m (fakós epafís, “contact lens”)
• αμφίκοιλος (amfíkoilos, “biconcave”, adjective)
• αμφίκυρτος (amfíkyrtos, “biconvex”, adjective)

Further reading

• φακός on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^el