Φιλομήλη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From φίλος (phílos, “love”) + μῆλον (mêlon, “apple; fruit; sheep”), but folk-etymologized since at least the time of Ovid as + μέλος (mélos, “song”).

Pronunciation

 

Proper noun

Φῐλομήλη • (Phĭlomḗlē) f (genitive Φῐλομήλης); first declension

  1. Synonym: ἀηδών (aēdṓn)
  2. a female given name, Philomela, notably borne by the sister of Procne who was raped and mutilated by her brother-in-law Tereus
  3. (literary zoology, originally) swallow
  4. (literary zoology, later) nightingale

Inflection

First declension of ἡ Φῐλομήλη; τῆς Φῐλομήλης (Attic)
Case / # Singular
Nominative ἡ Φῐλομήλη
hē Phĭlomḗlē
Genitive τῆς Φῐλομήλης
tês Phĭlomḗlēs
Dative τῇ Φῐλομήλῃ
tēî Phĭlomḗlēi
Accusative τὴν Φῐλομήλην
tḕn Phĭlomḗlēn
Vocative Φῐλομήλη
Phĭlomḗlē
Notes:
  • This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Descendants

  • English: Philomel, Philomela
  • French: Philomèle
  • Greek: Φιλομήλη (Filomíli)
  • Latin: Philomela

Further reading

  • 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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