Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φαῦος ‎(phaûos) Aeolic
• φόως ‎(phóōs) Epic, assimilation
• φῶς ‎(phôs) Attic, contraction

Noun

φάος • ‎(pháos) n ‎(genitive φᾰ́εος); third declension

1. light, especially daylight
   • Homer, Odyssey 23.371
   • Homer, Iliad 1.605
   • Plato, The Republic 515.E
   1. 1. (poetic) the life of men
         • Homer, Iliad 18.61
         • Hesiod, Works and Days 153
      2. of the light or time of day
         • Homer, Odyssey 21.429
      3. a day
         • Euripides, Rhesus 447
   2. the light of a torch, fire, a light
      • Homer, Odyssey 19.24
   3. the light of the eyes
      • Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.75
   4. a window
      • Plutarch, Moralia 2.515B
2. light as a metaphor for delight, deliverance, happiness, victory, glory, etc.
   • Homer, Iliad 17.615
   • Homer, Iliad 6.6
3. the dark ring around the nipple, areola
   • Pollux, Onomasticon 2.163

Inflection

References

• φάος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φάος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• φάος in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «φάος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «φάος» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• φάος in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blaze idem, page 82.
  • darling idem, page 195.
  • daylight idem, page 197.
  • 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.
  • treasure idem, page 891.