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φωναί (phonai)

φωναί is an Ancient Greek form of φωνή, meaning “voice, sound”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 7.1.57: … καὶ ἄσημος, ὡς ἡ βλίτυρι, λόγος δὲ οὐδαμῶς. διαφέρει δὲ καὶ τὸ λέγειν τοῦ προφέρεσθαι· προφέρονται μὲν γὰρ αἱ φωναί, λέγεται δὲ τὰ πράγματα, ἃ δὴ καὶ λεκτὰ τυγχάνει. Τοῦ δὲ λόγου ἐστὶ μέρη πέντε, ὥς φησι Διογένης τʼ ἐν τῷ Περ …

Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 8·4: … ν σαλευθήσονται καὶ οἱ οὐρανοὶ εἱλιγήσονται ὡς δέρρις ἐκτεινόμενοι καὶ συστελλόμενοι ʽαὗται γὰρ αἱ προφητικαὶ φωναἴ καὶ ἡ γῆ φεύξεται ἀπὸ προσώπου κυρίου.

All forms of φωνή (declension 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.