Φωκίς

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Φῶκος (Phôkos, “Phocus”) +‎ -ῐς (-is)

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /pʰɔː.kís/ → /ɸoˈcis/ → /foˈcis/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /pʰɔː.kís/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /pʰoˈkis/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ɸoˈcis/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /foˈcis/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /foˈcis/

Proper noun

Φωκῐ́ς • (Phōkís) f (genitive Φωκῐ́δος); third declension

1. Phocis, a region in Greece

Declension

Third declension of ἡ Φωκῐ́ς; τῆς Φωκῐ́δος (Attic)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ἡ Φωκῐ́ς hē Phōkís
Genitive	τῆς Φωκῐ́δος tês Phōkídos
Dative	τῇ Φωκῐ́δῐ têi Phōkídi
Accusative	τὴν Φωκῐ́δᾰ tḕn Phōkída
Vocative	Φωκῐ́ς Phōkís
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 *-ds.

Derived terms

• Φώκαιᾰ (Phṓkaia)
• Φωκαιεύς (Phōkaieús)
• Φωκαιίς (Phōkaiís)
• Φωκεύς (Phōkeús)
• Φωκῐκός (Phōkikós)
• Φώκιος (Phṓkios)

 

Descendants

• Greek: Φωκίδα (Fokída)
• Latin: Phōcis

References

• “Φωκίς”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎^[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,022

Further reading

• Phocis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia