Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• φωνᾱ́εις ‎(phōnā́eis) Aeolic, Doric
• φωνῆς ‎(phōnês) contracted

Adjective

φωνήεις • ‎(phōnḗeis) m ‎(feminine φωνήεσσᾰ, neuter φωνῆεν); first/third declension

1. endowed with speech, vocal
2. (of a lyre) musical
3. (of a song) sounding
4. (with λόγος) clear
5. (grammar) consisting only as vowels

Declension

Derived terms

• φωνᾶεν ‎(phōnâen, “power of speech”)
• φωνῆεν ‎(phōnêen, “vowel”)

References

• φωνήεις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φωνάεις in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• φωνήεις in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «φωνήεις» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • vocal idem, page 955.