Φιλοκτήτης

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φίλος (phílos, “friend”) +‎ κτάομαι (ktáomai, “to acquire”) +‎ -της (-tēs, “-er”).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Φῐλοκτήτης • (Phĭloktḗtēs) m (genitive Φῐλοκτήτου); first declension

  1. a male given name, Philoctetes

Inflection

First declension of ὁ Φῐλοκτήτης; τοῦ Φῐλοκτήτου (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ὁ Φῐλοκτήτης
ho Phĭloktḗtēs
Genitive τοῦ Φῐλοκτήτου
toû Phĭloktḗtou
Dative τῷ Φῐλοκτήτῃ
tōî Phĭloktḗtēi
Accusative τὸν Φῐλοκτήτην
tòn Phĭloktḗtēn
Vocative Φῐλοκτήτη
Phĭloktḗtē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • Greek: Φιλοκτήτης (Filoktítis)
  • → Latin: Philoctētēs

Further reading

  • “Φιλοκτήτης”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
  • Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,021
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