φῶς

See also: φως and φώς

Ancient Greek

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̂ːs/ → /ɸos/ → /fos/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɔ̂ːs/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰos/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸos/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /fos/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /fos/

Noun

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

1. Attic form of φᾰ́ος (pháos, “light”)

Inflection

Third declension of τὸ φῶς; τοῦ φωτός (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ φῶς tò phôs	τὼ φῶτε tṑ phôte	τᾰ̀ φῶτᾰ tà phôta
Genitive	τοῦ φωτός toû phōtós	τοῖν φώτοιν toîn phṓtoin	τῶν φώτων tôn phṓtōn
Dative	τῷ φωτῐ́ tôi phōtí	τοῖν φώτοιν toîn phṓtoin	τοῖς φωσῐ́ / φωσῐ́ν toîs phōsí(n)
Accusative	τὸ φῶς tò phôs	τὼ φῶτε tṑ phôte	τᾰ̀ φῶτᾰ tà phôta
Vocative	φῶς phôs	φῶτε phôte	φῶτᾰ phôta
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 *-ts. Some writers use a mixture of the uncontracted forms (given at φᾰ́ος (pháos)) and the contracted forms (given here).

Further reading

• “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.
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  • 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.