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 (whence English beech), Gothic 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰 (bōka, “beech”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰɛː.ɡós/ → /ɸiˈɣos/ → /fiˈɣos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɛː.ɡós/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰe̝ˈɡos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸiˈɣos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fiˈɣos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈɣos/

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

• Φηγεύς (Phēgeús)
• φήγινος (phḗginos)
• Φηγοῦς (Phēgoûs)

 

Descendants

• → Old Armenian: փեկոն (pʻekon)

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^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • beech idem, page 69.
  • beech-nut idem, page 69.