A.trans., in pres., fut., and aor1 act., to bring forth, produce, put forth leaves, etc., Hom., etc.; so, τρίχας ἔφυσεν made the hair grow, Od.: of a country, φύειν καρπόν τε καὶ ἄνδρας Hdt.
2.of men, to beget, engender, generate, Lat. procreare, Eur., etc.;— ὁ φύσας the begetter, father (opp. to ὁ φύς, the son, v. infr. B. I. 2), Soph.; and of both parents, οἱ φύσαντες Eur.: metaph., ἥδ᾽ ἡμέρα φύσει σε will bring to light thy birth, Soph.; χρόνος φύει ἄδηλα id=Soph.
3.of persons in regard to themselves, φ. πώγωνα to grow or get a beard, Hdt.; φ. πτερά Ar.: hence the joke in φύειν φράτερας, v. φράτηρ.
4.metaph., φρένας φύειν to get understanding, Soph.; δόξαν φύειν to form a high opinion of oneself, Hdt.
II.absol. to put forth shoots, ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ ἡ μὲν φύει ἡ δ᾽ ἀπολήγει one generation is putting forth scions, the other is ceasing to do so, Il.; δρύες φύοντι Theocr.
B.Pass., with the intr. tenses of Act., viz. aor2, perf. and plup., to grow, wax, spring up, arise, Od.; φύεται αὐτόματα ῥόδα Hdt.; so, τοῦ κέρα ἐκ κεφαλῆς ἑκκαιδεκάδωρα πεφύκει from his head grew horns sixteen palms long, Il., Plat.; τῶν φύντων αἴτιος the cause of the things produced, Dem.
2.of men, to be begotten or born, most often in aor2 and perf., ὁ λωφήσων οὐ πέφυκέ πω he that shall abate it is not yet born, Aesch.; μὴ φῦναι νικᾶι not to have been born were best, Soph.:—c. gen., φῦναι or πεφυκέναι τινός to be born or descended from any one, Aesch., etc.; ἀπό τινος Soph., etc.
II.the perf. and sometimes the aor2 take a pres. sense, to be so and so by nature, πέφυκε κακός, σοφός Trag., etc.; so, οἱ καλῶς πεφυκότες Soph.:—then, simply, to be so and so, ἔφυς μητὴρ θεῶν Aesch.; ἁπλοῦς ὁ μῦθος τῆς ἀληθείας ἔφυ Eur.
