ἀφάκη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Probably a substrate word related to φακός (phakós, “lentil”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /a.pʰá.kɛː/ → /aˈɸa.ci/ → /aˈfa.ci/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /a.pʰá.kɛː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈpʰa.ke̝/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈɸa.ci/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈfa.ci/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈfa.ci/

Noun

ἀφάκη • (aphákē) f (genitive ἀφάκης); first declension

1. vetch (Vicia sativa)
2. dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ ἀφάκη; τῆς ἀφάκης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἀφάκη hē aphákē	τὼ ἀφάκᾱ tṑ aphákā	αἱ ἀφάκαι hai aphákai
Genitive	τῆς ἀφάκης tês aphákēs	τοῖν ἀφάκαιν toîn aphákain	τῶν ἀφακῶν tôn aphakôn
Dative	τῇ ἀφάκῃ têi aphákēi	τοῖν ἀφάκαιν toîn aphákain	ταῖς ἀφάκαις taîs aphákais
Accusative	τὴν ἀφάκην tḕn aphákēn	τὼ ἀφάκᾱ tṑ aphákā	τᾱ̀ς ἀφάκᾱς tā̀s aphákās
Vocative	ἀφάκη aphákē	ἀφάκᾱ aphákā	ἀφάκαι aphákai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

• Latin: aphaca
• Translingual: Aphaca

Further reading

• “ἀφάκη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἀφάκη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• ἀφάκη in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
• Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, p. 175