φῶς

See also: φως and φώς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Contracted from φάος (pháos). After the contraction, the original s-stem was changed into a t-stem φωτ- (phōt-), following ἔρως (érōs), stem ἐρωτ- (erōt-) and χρώς (khrṓs), stem χρωτ- (khrōt-).^[1]

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̂ːs/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰos/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸos/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfos/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfos/

Noun

φῶς • (phôs) n (genitive φωτός); third declension

Attic form of φᾰ́ος (phắos, “light”)

Declension

Third declension of τὸ φῶς; τοῦ φωτός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φῶς tò phôs	τὼ φῶτε tṑ phôte	τᾰ̀ φῶτᾰ tằ phôtă
Genitive	τοῦ φωτός toû phōtós	τοῖν φώτοιν toîn phṓtoin	τῶν φώτων tôn phṓtōn
Dative	τῷ φωτῐ́ tōî phōtĭ́	τοῖν φώτοιν toîn phṓtoin	τοῖς φωσῐ́ / φωσῐ́ν toîs phōsĭ́(n)
Accusative	τὸ φῶς tò phôs	τὼ φῶτε tṑ phôte	τᾰ̀ φῶτᾰ tằ phôtă
Vocative	φῶς phôs	φῶτε phôte	φῶτᾰ phôtă
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 -τς (-ts). Some writers use a mixture of uncontracted φᾰ́ος (phắos) and contracted φῶς (phôs).

Derived terms

φωτο- (phōto-)

References

^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “φάος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1551-1552: “VAR > φῶς”

“φῶς”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“φῶς”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891), A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
φῶς in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
G5457 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910), English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- blaze idem, page 82.
- brightness idem, page 98.
- darling idem, page 195.
- daylight idem, page 197.
- eye idem, page 299.
- flame idem, page 325.
- glimmer idem, page 362.
- glory idem, page 363.
- glow idem, page 363.
- jewel idem, page 463.
- light idem, page 490.
- loadstar idem, page 496.
- pet idem, page 609.
- pride idem, page 640.
- publicity idem, page 656.
- radiance idem, page 668.
- treasure idem, page 891.
φῶς, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011

[1] Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “φάος”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1551-1552: “VAR > φῶς”

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