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πεφυκός (pephykos)

πεφυκός is an Ancient Greek form of φύω, meaning “grow, produce; (perf.) be by nature”. It is the perfect active participle accusative singular neuter.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Bacchae 896: ἀεὶ φύσει τε πεφυκός.

Plutarch, Pericles 39.2: … αὶ ἀμίαντον Ὀλύμπιον προσαγορεύεσθαι, καθάπερ τὸ τῶν θεῶν γένος ἀξιοῦμεν αἴτιον μὲν ἀγαθῶν, ἀναίτιον δὲ κακῶν πεφυκὸς ἄρχειν καὶ βασιλεύειν τῶν ὄντων, οὐχ ὥσπερ οἱ ποιηταὶ συνταράττοντες ἡμᾶς ἀμαθεστάταις δόξαις ἁλίσκονται τοῖς …

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.