"Φοῖνιξ" meaning in Ancient Greek

See Φοῖνιξ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Proper name

IPA: /pʰôi̯.niks/, /ˈɸy.niks/, /ˈfi.niks/, /pʰôi̯.niks/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈpʰy.niks/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈɸy.niks/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈfy.niks/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈfi.niks/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan)
Etymology: The ethnonym is homophonous with φοῖνιξ (phoînix), the Greek name of Tyrian purple. There has been some debate as to whether the ethnonym was derived from the name of the dye or vice versa. The ethnonym is found in use in ancient Mycenaean as 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo). One theory is that it is derived from the genuinely Greek adjective φοινός (phoinós, “blood-red”). Another theory is that is borrowed from Egyptian fnḫw (fenkhu), probably their plural term for "woodcutters" or "carpenters", which would refer to the peoples of the land of Canaan in the region of the Levant to the north, who supplied Egypt with the cedar wood cut from their forests, although there is no evidence that the Egyptians referred to the Phoenicians by this name. Etymology templates: {{bor|grc|egy|fnḫw|sc=Latn|tr=fenkhu}} Egyptian fnḫw (fenkhu) Head templates: {{grc-proper noun|Φοίνῑκος|m|third|head=Φοῖνῐξ}} Φοῖνῐξ • (Phoînĭx) m (genitive Φοίνῑκος); third declension Inflection templates: {{grc-decl|Φοῖνῐξ|Φοίνῑκος|form=MF}} Forms: Φοῖνῐξ [canonical], Phoînĭx [romanization], Φοίνῑκος [genitive], Attic declension-3 [table-tags], [nominative, singular], ἡ Φοῖνῐξ [nominative, singular], τὼ Φοίνῑκε [dual, nominative], οἱ [nominative, plural], αἱ Φοίνῑκες [nominative, plural], τοῦ [genitive, singular], τῆς Φοίνῑκος [genitive, singular], τοῖν Φοινῑ́κοιν [dual, genitive], τῶν Φοινῑ́κων [genitive, plural], τῷ [dative, singular], τῇ Φοίνῑκῐ [dative, singular], τοῖν Φοινῑ́κοιν [dative, dual], τοῖς [dative, plural], ταῖς Φοίνῑξῐ [dative, plural], Φοίνῑξῐν [dative, plural], toîs [dative, plural], taîs Phoínīxĭ [dative, plural], taîs Phoínīxĭn [dative, plural], τὸν [accusative, singular], τὴν Φοίνῑκᾰ [accusative, singular], τὼ Φοίνῑκε [accusative, dual], τοὺς [accusative, plural], τᾱ̀ς Φοίνῑκᾰς [accusative, plural], Φοῖνῐξ [singular, vocative], Φοίνῑκε [dual, vocative], Φοίνῑκες [plural, vocative]
  1. Phoenix, a city on the Mediterranean Sea. Derived forms: Φοινίκη (Phoiníkē), Φοίνισσα (Phoínissa), Φοίνικικός (Phoínikikós)
    Sense id: en-Φοῖνιξ-grc-name-7JPCV9OQ Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 51 27 22 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 60 16 24

Noun

IPA: /pʰôi̯.niks/, /ˈɸy.niks/, /ˈfi.niks/, /pʰôi̯.niks/ (note: 5ᵗʰ BCE Attic), /ˈpʰy.niks/ (note: 1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian), /ˈɸy.niks/ (note: 4ᵗʰ CE Koine), /ˈfy.niks/ (note: 10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine), /ˈfi.niks/ (note: 15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan) Forms: Φοῖνῐξ [canonical], Phoînĭx [romanization], Φοίνῑκος [genitive]
Etymology: The ethnonym is homophonous with φοῖνιξ (phoînix), the Greek name of Tyrian purple. There has been some debate as to whether the ethnonym was derived from the name of the dye or vice versa. The ethnonym is found in use in ancient Mycenaean as 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo). One theory is that it is derived from the genuinely Greek adjective φοινός (phoinós, “blood-red”). Another theory is that is borrowed from Egyptian fnḫw (fenkhu), probably their plural term for "woodcutters" or "carpenters", which would refer to the peoples of the land of Canaan in the region of the Levant to the north, who supplied Egypt with the cedar wood cut from their forests, although there is no evidence that the Egyptians referred to the Phoenicians by this name. Etymology templates: {{bor|grc|egy|fnḫw|sc=Latn|tr=fenkhu}} Egyptian fnḫw (fenkhu) Head templates: {{grc-noun|Φοίνῑκος|m|third|g2=f|head=Φοῖνῐξ}} Φοῖνῐξ • (Phoînĭx) m or f (genitive Φοίνῑκος); third declension
  1. Phoenician
    Sense id: en-Φοῖνιξ-grc-noun-rQ5jqWPG Categories (other): Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header, Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension, Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the third declension Disambiguation of Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header: 23 46 31 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension: 16 53 31 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension: 16 53 31 Disambiguation of Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the third declension: 19 51 30
  2. Carthaginian (as descendants of Phoenicia)
    Sense id: en-Φοῖνιξ-grc-noun-Q3dfPRQz

Inflected forms

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      "expansion": "Φοῖνῐξ • (Phoînĭx) m or f (genitive Φοίνῑκος); third declension",
      "name": "grc-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Phoenician"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Phoenician",
          "Phoenician"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Carthaginian (as descendants of Phoenicia)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Carthaginian",
          "Carthaginian"
        ],
        [
          "Phoenicia",
          "Phoenicia"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰôi̯.niks/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɸy.niks/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfi.niks/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰôi̯.niks/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpʰy.niks/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɸy.niks/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfy.niks/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfi.niks/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Phoenicians",
    "Phoenix"
  ],
  "word": "Φοῖνιξ"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Ancient Greek 2-syllable words",
    "Ancient Greek entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ancient Greek feminine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek feminine nouns in the third declension",
    "Ancient Greek lemmas",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns",
    "Ancient Greek masculine nouns in the third declension",
    "Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns",
    "Ancient Greek masculine proper nouns in the third declension",
    "Ancient Greek nouns",
    "Ancient Greek nouns with multiple genders",
    "Ancient Greek proper nouns",
    "Ancient Greek properispomenon terms",
    "Ancient Greek terms borrowed from Egyptian",
    "Ancient Greek terms derived from Egyptian",
    "Ancient Greek terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Ancient Greek third-declension nouns",
    "Ancient Greek third-declension proper nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "roman": "Phoiníkē",
      "word": "Φοινίκη"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Phoínissa",
      "word": "Φοίνισσα"
    },
    {
      "roman": "Phoínikikós",
      "word": "Φοίνικικός"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "el",
            "2": "Φοίνιξ"
          },
          "expansion": "Greek: Φοίνιξ (Foínix)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Greek: Φοίνιξ (Foínix)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "la",
            "2": "Phoenīx"
          },
          "expansion": "Latin: Phoenīx",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Latin: Phoenīx"
    },
    {
      "depth": 2,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "Phoenix"
          },
          "expansion": "English: Phoenix",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "English: Phoenix"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ota",
            "2": "فنیكه",
            "bor": "1",
            "tr": "Finike"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Ottoman Turkish: فنیكه (Finike)\nTurkish: Finike\n→ Armenian: Ֆինիքէ (Finikʻē)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Ottoman Turkish: فنیكه (Finike)\nTurkish: Finike\n→ Armenian: Ֆինիքէ (Finikʻē)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "egy",
        "3": "fnḫw",
        "sc": "Latn",
        "tr": "fenkhu"
      },
      "expansion": "Egyptian fnḫw (fenkhu)",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "The ethnonym is homophonous with φοῖνιξ (phoînix), the Greek name of Tyrian purple. There has been some debate as to whether the ethnonym was derived from the name of the dye or vice versa. The ethnonym is found in use in ancient Mycenaean as 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo). One theory is that it is derived from the genuinely Greek adjective φοινός (phoinós, “blood-red”). Another theory is that is borrowed from Egyptian fnḫw (fenkhu), probably their plural term for \"woodcutters\" or \"carpenters\", which would refer to the peoples of the land of Canaan in the region of the Levant to the north, who supplied Egypt with the cedar wood cut from their forests, although there is no evidence that the Egyptians referred to the Phoenicians by this name.",
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    {
      "form": "Φοῖνῐξ",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Phoînĭx",
      "tags": [
        "romanization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Φοίνῑκος",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Attic declension-3",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "grc-decl",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Third declension",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ὁ",
      "roman": "ho",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ἡ Φοῖνῐξ",
      "roman": "hē Phoînĭx",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ Φοίνῑκε",
      "roman": "tṑ Phoínīke",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "οἱ",
      "roman": "hoi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "αἱ Φοίνῑκες",
      "roman": "hai Phoínīkes",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῦ",
      "roman": "toû",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῆς Φοίνῑκος",
      "roman": "tês Phoínīkos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν Φοινῑ́κοιν",
      "roman": "toîn Phoinī́koin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῶν Φοινῑ́κων",
      "roman": "tôn Phoinī́kōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῷ",
      "roman": "tôi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τῇ Φοίνῑκῐ",
      "roman": "têi Phoínīkĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖν Φοινῑ́κοιν",
      "roman": "toîn Phoinī́koin",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοῖς",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ταῖς Φοίνῑξῐ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Φοίνῑξῐν",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "toîs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taîs Phoínīxĭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taîs Phoínīxĭn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὸν",
      "roman": "tòn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὴν Φοίνῑκᾰ",
      "roman": "tḕn Phoínīkă",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τὼ Φοίνῑκε",
      "roman": "tṑ Phoínīke",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τοὺς",
      "roman": "toùs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "τᾱ̀ς Φοίνῑκᾰς",
      "roman": "tā̀s Phoínīkăs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Φοῖνῐξ",
      "roman": "Phoînĭx",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Φοίνῑκε",
      "roman": "Phoínīke",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Φοίνῑκες",
      "roman": "Phoínīkes",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Φοίνῑκος",
        "2": "m",
        "3": "third",
        "head": "Φοῖνῐξ"
      },
      "expansion": "Φοῖνῐξ • (Phoînĭx) m (genitive Φοίνῑκος); third declension",
      "name": "grc-proper noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Φοῖνῐξ",
        "2": "Φοίνῑκος",
        "form": "MF"
      },
      "name": "grc-decl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Ancient Greek",
  "lang_code": "grc",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Phoenix, a city on the Mediterranean Sea."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Phoenix",
          "Phoenix"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰôi̯.niks/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɸy.niks/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfi.niks/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/pʰôi̯.niks/",
      "note": "5ᵗʰ BCE Attic"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpʰy.niks/",
      "note": "1ˢᵗ CE Egyptian"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɸy.niks/",
      "note": "4ᵗʰ CE Koine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfy.niks/",
      "note": "10ᵗʰ CE Byzantine"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfi.niks/",
      "note": "15ᵗʰ CE Constantinopolitan"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Phoenicians",
    "Phoenix"
  ],
  "word": "Φοῖνιξ"
}

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