φυγή

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From Proto-Hellenic *pʰugā́, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰugéh₂. Equivalent to φεύγω (pheúgō, “flee”) +‎ -η (-ē, action noun suffix).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰy.ɡɛ̌ː/ → /ɸyˈʝi/ → /fiˈʝi/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰy.ɡɛ̌ː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰyˈɡe̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸyˈʝi/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fyˈʝi/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fiˈʝi/

Noun

φῠγή • (phugḗ) f (genitive φῠγῆς); first declension

1. flight, retreat, escape
2. exile, banishment

Inflection

First declension of ἡ φῠγή; τῆς φῠγῆς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ φῠγή hē phugḗ	τὼ φῠγᾱ́ tṑ phugā́	αἱ φῠγαί hai phugaí
Genitive	τῆς φῠγῆς tês phugês	τοῖν φῠγαῖν toîn phugaîn	τῶν φῠγῶν tôn phugôn
Dative	τῇ φῠγῇ têi phugêi	τοῖν φῠγαῖν toîn phugaîn	ταῖς φῠγαῖς taîs phugaîs
Accusative	τὴν φῠγήν tḕn phugḗn	τὼ φῠγᾱ́ tṑ phugā́	τᾱ̀ς φῠγᾱ́ς tā̀s phugā́s
Vocative	φῠγή phugḗ	φῠγᾱ́ phugā́	φῠγαί phugaí
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Related terms

• φυγάς (phugás)

Further reading

• “φυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φυγή”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “φυγή”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• φυγή 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
• φυγή in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• G5437 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.
  • avoidance of idem, page 55.
  • banishment idem, page 61.
  • disappearance idem, page 227.
  • escape idem, page 282.
  • exile idem, page 292.
  • flight idem, page 327.
  • outlawry idem, page 582.
  • proscription idem, page 653.
  • refusal idem, page 685.
  • rejection idem, page 688.
  • repudiation idem, page 699.
  • stampede idem, page 810.
  • transportation idem, page 889.