Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, φωνή

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I.a sound, tone, properly the sound of the voice, mostly of men, Lat. vox, Hom., etc.; of a battlecry, Xen.; φωνὴν ῥηγνύναι, Virgil's rumpere vocem, to utter an articulate sound, Hdt., Ar.; φ. ἱέναι, Lat. vocem edere, Hdt., etc.: pl. αἱ φ. the tones of the voice, Plat.:—proverb., φωνῇ ὁρᾶν, of a blind man, Soph.

2.the voice or cry of animals, Od., Hdt., etc.

3.any articulate sound, as opp. to inarticulate (ψόφος), Soph., etc.

4.of sounds from inanimate objects, φ. συρίγγων Eur.; ὀργάνων Plat.

II.the faculty of speech, discourse, Lat. sermo, Soph.

2.language, Lat. lingua, Hdt.

3.a kind of language, dialect, Aesch., Thuc., etc.

III.a phrase, saying, τὴν Σιμωνίδου φ. Plat.

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Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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