ἔφυ (ephy)

ἔφυ is an Ancient Greek form of φύω, meaning “grow, produce; (perf.) be by nature”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 119 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.3.73: … δὲ τῆς εἰκόνος αὐτοῦ ἐπιγέγραπται τόδε· τόνδε δοριστέφανος Σπάρτα Χίλωνʼ ἐφύτευσεν, ὃς τῶν ἑπτὰ σοφῶν πρῶτος ἔφυ σοφίᾳ. ἀπεφθέγξατο, ἐγγύα, πάρα δʼ ἄτα. ἔστιν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπιστόλιον τόδε· Χίλων Περιάνδρῳ “Ἐπιστέλλεις ἐμὶν ἐκ …

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.