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φύσας (physas)

φύσας is an Ancient Greek form of φύω, meaning “grow, produce; (perf.) be by nature”.

It can also be a form of φῦσα, “bellows”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.763: εἰπὲ δὲ κοιμῆσαι φύσας πυρός, εἰσόκεν Ἀργὼ

Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 381: εἰπέ μοι, τί δεινὰ φυσᾷς αἱματηρὸν ὄμμʼ ἔχων;

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.