φάος

• φαῦος (phaûos) — Aeolic
• φόως (phóōs) — Epic, assimilation
• φῶς (phôs) — Attic, contracted

From Proto-Hellenic *pʰáwos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰéh₂os, from *bʰeh₂- (“shine”). Compare φαεινός (phaeinós), φάω (pháō), and φαίνω (phaínō). Cognates include Latin iubar (“radiance, light”); Sanskrit भास् (bhās, “light, brilliance”) and भास (bhāsa, “luster, light”); and Old English basu (“purple”).

φάος • (pháos) n (genitive φᾰ́εος); third declension

1. light, especially daylight
   • Homer, Odyssey 23.371
   1. the light of a torch, fire, a light
      • Homer, Odyssey 19.24
   2. of the light or time of day
      • Homer, Odyssey 21.429
   • Homer, Iliad 1.605
   • Plato, The Republic 515E
2. (poetic) the life of men
   • Homer, Iliad 18.61
   • Hesiod, Works and Days 153
3. a day
   • Euripides, Rhesus 447
4. the light of the eyes
   • Pindar, Nemean Ode 10.75
5. a window
   • Plutarch, Moralia 2.515B
6. (figurative or poetic) delight, deliverance, happiness, victory, glory, etc.
   • Homer, Iliad 17.615
   • Homer, Iliad 6.6
7. the dark ring around the nipple, areola
   • Pollux, Onomasticon 2.163

• -φαής (-phaḗs)
  • ἀμφιφαής (amphiphaḗs)

• “φάος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “φάος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “φάος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• φάος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• φάος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “φάος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • blaze idem, page 82.
  • darling idem, page 195.
  • daylight idem, page 197.
  • flame idem, page 325.
  • glimmer idem, page 362.
  • glory idem, page 363.
  • glow idem, page 363.
  • jewel idem, page 463.
  • light idem, page 490.
  • loadstar idem, page 496.
  • pet idem, page 609.
  • pride idem, page 640.
  • treasure idem, page 891.
• φάος - ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ (since 2011) Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch) University of Chicago.