ἔφυς (ephys)

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

Found 52 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Theocritus, Εἰδύλλια 19.8: ὡς τυτθὸς μὲν ἔφυς, τὰ δὲ τραύματα ταλίκα ποιεῖς.

Euripides, Alcestis 515: ζῶσιν κατ’ οἴκους παῖδες οὓς ἔφυσ’ ἐγώ.

Homeric Hymns, Hymn 2 to Demeter 428: νάρκισσόν θʼ, ὃν ἔφυσʼ ὥς περ κρόκον εὐρεῖα χθών.

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.