φύω
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.
2. c. inf. "to be by nature disposed to do" so and so, ἔφυν πράσσειν Soph.; φύσει μὴ πεφυκότα τοιαῦτα φωνεῖν "not formed" by nature so to speak, id=Soph.; πεφύκασι ἁμαρτάνειν Thuc.
3. with Preps., φῦναι ἐπὶ δακρύοις "to be by nature prone" to tears, Eur.; πεφυκὼς πρὸς ἀρετήν Xen.
4. c. dat. "to fall" to one "by nature, be" one's "natural lot", πᾶσι θνατοῖς ἔφυ μόρος Soph., etc.
5. impers., c. inf., "it is natural" to do, Arist.:—absol., ὡς πέφυκε as "is natural", Xen.