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πέφυκας (pephykas)

πέφυκας is an Ancient Greek form of φύω, meaning “grow, produce; (perf.) be by nature”. It is the 2nd person singular perfect active indicative.

Found 34 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Medea 285: σοφὴ πέφυκας καὶ κακῶν πολλῶν ἴδρις,

Euripides, Andromache 377: ὀρθῶς πεφύκασ’, ἀλλὰ κοινὰ χρήματα.

Euripides, Ion 1622: οἱ κακοὶ δʼ, ὥσπερ πεφύκασʼ, οὔποτʼ εὖ πράξειαν ἄν.

All forms of φύω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.