φέγγος

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No etymology. It has often been compared with Lithuanian spingiù (“to glitter”) and with Old English spincan (“to spark”), Old High German funko (“spark”), but this suggestion is impossible in view of the initial stops.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰéŋ.ɡos/ → /ˈɸeŋ.ɡos/ → /ˈfeŋ.ɡos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰéŋ.ɡos/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈpʰeŋ.ɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈɸeŋ.ɡos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈfeŋ.ɡos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈfeŋ.ɡos/

Noun

φέγγος • (phéngos) n (genitive φέγγεος); third declension

1. light, splendour, lustre
2. moonlight

   Antonym: φάος (pháos)

3. light of torches or fire
4. light of the eyes
5. (figuratively) delight, glory, pride

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ φέγγος; τοῦ φέγγεος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φέγγος tò phéngos	τὼ φέγγεε tṑ phéngee	τᾰ̀ φέγγεᾰ tà phéngea
Genitive	τοῦ φέγγεος toû phéngeos	τοῖν φεγγέοιν toîn phengéoin	τῶν φεγγέων tôn phengéōn
Dative	τῷ φέγγεῐ̈ tôi phéngeï	τοῖν φεγγέοιν toîn phengéoin	τοῖς φέγγεσῐ / φέγγεσῐν toîs phéngesi(n)
Accusative	τὸ φέγγος tò phéngos	τὼ φέγγεε tṑ phéngee	τᾰ̀ φέγγεᾰ tà phéngea
Vocative	φέγγος phéngos	φέγγεε phéngee	φέγγεᾰ phéngea
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

• φεγγαῖον (phengaîon)
• φεγγίτης (phengítēs)
• φεγγοβολέω (phengoboléō)
• φέγγω (phéngō)
• χρυσοφεγγής (khrusophengḗs)

 

Descendants

• Italiot Greek: fengo

Further reading

• “φέγγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φέγγος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φέγγος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN