φανός

Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

Etymology

Contraction of φαεινός (phaeinós), from Proto-Hellenic *pʰawehnós, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰh₂wesnós, adjective noun from substantive *bʰéh₂wos (whence φάος (pháos)), from *bʰeh₂- (“to shine”).

Pronunciation

 

Adjective

φᾱνός • (phānós) m (feminine φᾱνή, neuter φᾱνόν); first/second declension

  1. bright, shining, resplendent

Declension

Noun

φᾱνός • (phānós) m (genitive φᾱνου); second declension

  1. torch, lantern

Inflection

Descendants

  • → Arabic: فَانُوس‎ (fānūs)
    • → Amharic: ፋኑስ (fanus)
    • → Dongolawi: fānū́s
    • → Ottoman Turkish: فانوس‎
    • → Swahili: fanusi
    • → Tigre: ፋኑስ (fanus)
    • → Tigrinya: ፋኑስ (fanus)
  • → Aramaic:
    Classical Syriac: ܦܴܢܣܴܐ‎ (pānəsā)
    Galilean: פנסא‎ (/pānəsā/)
  • → Hebrew: פָּנָס‎ (pānā́s)
  • → Italian: falò
  • → Persian: فانوس‎ (fânus)

Further reading

  • “φανός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
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